Sentence examples for material substances from inspiring English sources

In a world devoid of mental (and material) substances there is nothing to impart mentality (or materiality) to the given features of experience.

Early Greek thinkers sought the beginning of all things in various material substances.

Stahl had a corpuscularian, and largely mechanistic, interpretation of material substances and chemical processes.

Historically, many philosophers have thought that the mind involves a special substance that is different in some fundamental way from material substances.

Ge Hong enumerated an extensive selection of material substances and practical operations to which he attributed varying degrees of relative efficacy in the prolongation of life.

This is true with material substances.

More than metaphors for life, they embody the material substance of birth, growth, aging and death.

The most persuasive works in the show are essentially silhouettes with a lot of material substance.

Matter, material substance that constitutes the observable universe and, together with energy, forms the basis of all objective phenomena.

The truth of the mater is that our food does not correspond to any material substance, but rather, to states of mind.

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