Sentence examples for kind substance from inspiring English sources

Spinoza begins by stating a set of definitions of eight terms: self-caused, finite of its own kind, substance, attribute, mode, God, freedom, and eternity.

The lowest species in this taxonomy give way to kinds of increasing generality until the highest kind, substance, is reached.

Spinoza develops, in contrast to Cartesian dualism, an ontological monism according to which there is not only one kind of substance, but one substance, God or nature, with two attributes, corresponding to mind and body.

This might suggest that he is a kind of Substance Dualist, the soul being one substance and the body another, with the soul "interacting" as it were with the other substance, the body.

Some philosophers regarded it as a kind of substance, or "mental stuff," quite different from the material substance of the physical world.

Let us agree, for purposes of argument, that human being is a kind of substance and that rationality and animality are the properties in terms of which that substance is defined.

Some characters have "nuclear" powers, which means that they've come in contact with some kind of substance that has given them super-human powers.

Time was when most internships lacked this kind of substance.

She said she also never knew what kind of substance Bonds had been injected with.

One third had explicit references; 42 percent had some kind of substance abuse reference.

So much of it is so trashy and so devoid of any kind of substance".