In order to represent the immaterial concept of gold's value, Spriggs chose to depict the sculpture featured in the pediment of the NYSE building, but recreating its shape was only part of the depiction that Spriggs wanted to express.
Anxious to defend the concept of immaterial souls from all atheist threats, More insisted that the soul was necessary for life.
Such devices ask the viewer to consider the parameters of the afterlife and the concept of immaterial existence.
Such concepts "feel so immaterial that you think it's beyond science," Keysers says.
Barr argues, for example, that only immaterial intellects can form abstract concepts.
For example, a concept is clearly immaterial, and as such radically differs from any material object.
Maritain held that our knowledge of reality was through the 'concept' — the esse intentionale — which was immaterial and universal, though the concept itself was something known only by reflection.
For Strebe and Wardle, the literal devaluation from a $2 million stone to a tiny black hole challenges the art market and explores how material and immaterial value is attached to objects and concepts in reference to luxury, society and art.
Concepts of heaven and hell are immaterial to me as it is the here and now that most matters.
