Ajiva is further divided into two categories: nonsentient material entities and nonsentient nonmaterial entities.
Like point masses moving in frictionless, Newtonian vacuums, financial transactions are so far removed from the material entities that underlay them that transactions can occur with lightning speed, with nothing to slow them down.
Thus, Carnap suggested that mental predicates be treated as applying to material entities: for example, "Carnap sees green" could be taken as meaning "the body Carnap is in the state of green-seeing," the state of green-seeing being a purely physical state that explains the behavioral facts that led one to ascribe the predicate "sees green" to Carnap in the first place.
The only objects are fundamental material entities and fusions of them.
At this point Godfrey's philosophical preference is for unicity of form in all material entities, including humans.
On the flip side, the idea that the existence of a formal similarity between two material entities could mark anything interesting is conceptually confused.
It is only as atomic compounds (saṃghātastha, saṃcita) that atoms are subject to the same properties of resistance and destruction as composite material entities (see §4.2).
Thus, it is clear that such systems are not only composed of material entities; at least some of the constituents of experimental systems are conceptual in nature.
The new framework for philosophy, and meta-theory, was characterized by an anti-metaphysical attitude toward linguistic and otherwise formal, rather than material, entities.
We should assume, Hartley writes, that the body's "component particles" are "subjected to the same subtle laws" (OM 1, prop. 9) as are all other material entities.
Together with many of his contemporaries, Godfrey attempts to identify the principle within material entities that accounts for their being multiplied numerically within species.
