There's still a long way to go before the average Chinese person has all the material things of life".
The Prince, through whose consciousness virtually all the movie's action is filtered, runs the risk of seeming (as he sometimes does in the novel by the Sicilian nobleman Giuseppe di Lampedusa, on which the film is based) rather too Olympian in his detachment, too far above the sensual and material things of life.
Intuitively, particulars are things like my dog Ajax, Venus, my computer, and so on, the ordinary material things of the everyday spatio-temporal world.
(iii) Since the cases in which we experience sense-data include cases in which no material things of the sort in question, or with the features in question, are experienced, it follows that sense-data are not (in general) material things, or elements in the environment independent of the individual experiencer.
If you like and enjoy some of the material things of the American Dream, consider whether you'd enjoy them more as occasional treats rather than everyday routine.
Thus, among the consecutive properties of the golden mountain are probably the properties of being a material thing and of being extended.
The seventeenth-century French philosopher Nicolas Malebranche (1638-1715) farguedy argued that 'we see all things in God.' This doctrine of 'Vision in God' is intended as an account both of sense perception of material things and of the purely intellectual cognition of mathematical objects and abstract truths.
Though an energetic traveller abroad, her life at Dartington was frugal, her lack of interest in material things typical of many craftspeople of her generation.
God is a spirit, but a spirit is a material thing made out of a finer sort of matter.
If idealism in this sense is to be viewed as a kind of antirealism, the realism it opposes must be one which maintains the existence of material things independently of their being perceived or otherwise related to any mind, finite or otherwise.
