Sentence examples for immaterial which from inspiring English sources

Then Aquinas cannot be understood to be a physicalist, since the result of his analysis of perception and thought was to say that these activities are "immaterial," which was to say, not adequately captured by the kinds of physical descriptions that do adequately account for much of the being and change we observe in the world.

Harris cut her off, interjecting: "So are you saying that the revenue generated was.004% of your annual revenue", before adding the pointed observation: "Because of course that would not be immaterial" — which drew a rare stuttered double "so" from Sandberg.

What ensued is a story of reservations — including the immaterial sort, which trouble the mind.

The problem that Thomas now faces is how to speak of the immaterial substances which are less than God although superior to material substances, that is, angels.

But since it is impossible to conceive of material particles or of species or immaterial qualities which can pass from one of these substances into the other, the view must be rejected" (GP iv, 498f).

In approaching Palestine/Israel as a landscape of memory, I take the position that memory is simultaneously a material and immaterial phenomenon which cannot be detached from affective human bodies and their roles in the (re- constitutions of space and place.

Pomponazzi then observes that in the ladder of beings man holds an intermediate position: though not completely immersed in the body, like animals, he nevertheless does not enjoy the condition of the Intelligences, or immaterial forms, which have no need of the body either as substrate or as object of representation.

In the Summa theologiae, Aquinas even more radically calls the 'essence of things material' (quiditas rei materialis) the proper object of the human mind; the point is that man in this life has no knowledge of the essence of immaterial things, which make it impossible that God be known first.

The feat here is the creation of digital and immaterial works which still obey the real world's laws of physics inside their virtual space.

Scattered material entities (i.e. groups), however, include gaps and immaterial entities, which are not necessarily part of an object.

In other words, every group of material entities possesses immaterial parts, which are continuously connected to the space surrounding the aggregate.