Sentence examples for material essence from inspiring English sources

Jennifer Rampling traces how ideas of material essence and indivisibility evolved in the centuries before modern atomic theory.

It strips music down to its material essence, how sounds are made and how they are received.

The individuals in a species or genus thus share a single material essence.

They do not share a material essence, though they each have the same state or status of being a man.

The history of philosophy remembers William for his two theories of universals, material essence realism and indifference realism.

Material essence realism would imply that the persons in the Godhead are accidentally individuated, and this is unacceptable.

As well as explicitly distinguishing categories of meanings from categories of the correlated objects that could possibly be 'meant', Husserl introduced a second innovation to the study of categories by distinguishing highest formal essences (which Husserl calls 'categories') from highest material essences (which he calls 'regions') (1913/1962, §10; cf. Smith 1995, 329 330 and Smith 2007, 142 148).

This section considers some main responses to the tension between Locke's seeming acceptance of the corpuscular hypothesis, most notable in his apparent identification of a material substance's real essence with the size, shape, and texture of its insensible parts, and his pessimism about the hypothesis' explanatory power, most notable in his remarks about the four phenomena discussed above.

As will be discussed in a subsequent section, many commentators interpret Locke as identifying a material substance's real essence with some subset of its constituent corpuscles' primary qualities, an identification presuming that Locke accepts the corpuscular hypothesis (e.g., Osler 1970, p. 12; Mandelbaum 1964, p.1).

In principle, the design of excellent catalysts should be proceeded from the regulation of material's essence, such as structural phase transition10,19,20,21.

Scorsese's is a far better film than Baz Luhrmann's swirly, neon adaptation, but Luhrmann benefited from much better source material, the essence of which couldn't help but waft off of his hypersaturated, glossy spectacle and still hit the viewer with a cold smack of recognition.