Sentence examples for immaterial thing from inspiring English sources

The soul or spirit has nearly always been held to be an immaterial thing, and thus not part of the physical world.

Though it might sometimes be represented by bank notes or coins, money is an immaterial thing par excellence, and to seek to acquire it is to move on the plane of ideas.

We download or stream a song, article, book or movie instantly, get through it (if we're not waylaid by the infinite inventory also offered) and advance to the next immaterial thing.

(In defending his sense-data, Russell mistook a nonactual material thing for an actual immaterial thing).

Movements and schools are arbitrary and immaterial things by which poetic history is told.

The theory denies that immaterial or apparently immaterial things (such as minds) exist or else explains them away as being material things or motions of material things.

But that's not hygge; your ancestors would not recognise those things, and the sense of belonging is deeper, and stems from immaterial things.

"You took them all". As Mr. Brown points out, in such instances even immaterial things -- images or songs -- are claimed as property; their documentary and historical value is dismissed in theory if not in practice.

Berkeley contends that no material things exist, not just that some immaterial things exist.

In the cosmology of al-Ash'arî all immaterial things are considered "accidents" that inhere in a "substance" (jawhar).

(G VI 601/AG 209) As Leibniz says, "These souls are capable of performing reflective acts, and capable of considering what is called "I", substance, soul, mind – in brief, immaterial things and immaterial truths.