By contrast, the substantial form of any substance is its species essence, which is an immaterial entity that makes the object what it is, makes it a member of a particular species and genus and causes its characteristic properties.
Exner objected that Bolzano's theory of propositions makes it a mystery how human beings, who belong to the real world, grasp immaterial meanings.
And she paints pictures of the sea overlapping canvases and the wall, making it look as if the immaterial images had slipped off their physical moorings.
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.
Digging up the evidence about the increased number of GABA receptors made it clear that it was about the GABA A receptors, therefore I removed it as immaterial to my arguments.
The Aperio Group made it very clear that if you eliminate fossil fuel companies and rebalance the remaining companies to track the market, the absolute risk to investments is virtually immaterial.
It just makes him too immaterial to worry about.
Chimera said that while it has not yet completed its analysis, it expects to make only immaterial adjusted to its historical financial statements in prior comparable periods.
While the size of these alterations makes them immaterial to the analysis in this paper, it should be borne in mind that 1) the numbers in Tables 1 and 2 are not an exact representation of the full census results and 2) a separately-prepared custom extract of precisely the same variables from the same census may yield slightly different numbers.
That could be because of the role MP3s and podcasts now play in our lives and because of our new comfort with the immaterial world of pure data, which makes immaterial sound art seem less esoteric.
It will discourage short term speculative trading at the margin while encouraging longer holding periods, which makes the tax immaterial to investors.
