Sentence examples for immaterial principle from inspiring English sources

Descartes's writings about death show that his concept of the soul clearly implied both mind and the immaterial principle of immortality.

Priestley incorporated an explanation of the chemistry of these gases into the phlogiston theory, according to which combustible substances released phlogiston (an immaterial "principle of inflammability") during burning.

The major objection to the theory, that the ash of organic substances weighed less than the original while the calx was heavier than the metal, was of little significance to Stahl, who thought of phlogiston as an immaterial "principle" rather than as an actual substance.

That which feels is an immaterial principle (soul); that which is felt is the term (body) of this principle.

He is then able to use the behaviour of bodies in collisions to confirm the intervention of a necessarily immaterial principle of activity.

Ibn Daud infers the existence of something like the soul from the fact that different natural bodies are characterized by various actions, which can only be explained by positing the existence of an immaterial principle that is added to their corporeality and from which these actions derive.

and the Pythagoreans recognized only the sensible world and hence did not derive it from immaterial principles.

Rather, the Platonists thought that the first transcendent principle sustained a set of further immaterial principles and forms from which derive the diversity of the natural biosphere and which, through the agency of divine souls and forming principles (logoi principles that form matter at different times and places in its various ways), unfold themselves in space and time.

The perceived short-fall would be helpful to religion, according to More, precisely because the deficit could only be made good by acknowledging the role of an immaterial, active principle.

Being immaterial, they are "a unitary principle that is not continuous, nor contiguous, but exists of its own, not in a place, nor in a time".

In the first way, any form as such is immaterial because it is not a material principle.