Sentence examples for immaterial ideas from inspiring English sources

Moreover, an assertion that defendants consciously parodied the idea of a parochial view of the world is immaterial: ideas are not protected by copyright, and the infringement alleged is of Steinberg's particular expression of that idea.

So humans are not simply an immaterial idea, soul, spirit or 'thought' capable of existing independently of the body, yet are neither something which can be separated in essence from the rest of the natural world (Wójcik 2007).

Matter was, well, material, and form was an immaterial idea that had the ability to affect matter.

Sure, a line is a surface mark longer than it is wide, or a point moving through space; but one of those is physical and tangible, while the other is an immaterial idea.

The idea of an immaterial mind receiving information from an abstract object seems just as mysterious and confused as the idea of a physical brain receiving information from an abstract object.

For them the cyber-currency is governed by an incorruptible formula that - like the eternal forms envisioned by Plato, immaterial abstract ideas standing outside of time - is untouched by human error and folly.

Talent counts; ideas are immaterial.

In contrast, translation theorists conceive management ideas as immaterial accounts that are transformed as they spread.

In his early Notebooks, he toyed with the idea of rejecting immaterial substance, because we could have no idea of it, and reducing the self to a collection of the 'ideas' that constituted its contents.

If she is not contradicting her view that we do not have ideas of immaterials, or her view that God is outside the province of natural reason, she might just be attempting to speak in the language of her opponents to show that their own (putative) commitments entail that her view is to be accepted instead.

The tone of the Fox News interview suggests that he and his advisers aren't finding the idea so immaterial anymore.