Perhaps some of them were so wedded to the materialistic mind-set that they thought a regime's essential nature could be altered with a magical mix of incentives and disincentives.
"I know that the materialistic Western mind cannot grasp the idea, and it is difficult for them to believe that the high officials in Al Qaeda do not know about operations carried out by its operatives, but this is how it works," Mr. Mohammed wrote in his statement to his interrogators.
This argument has come to be known as the "Distinct Property Argument", and is taken by its proponents to undermine a thorough-going materialistic theory of the mind.
And since the capacity to play these roles is merely a matter of having certain causal relations to stimulations, behavior, and one another, the possession of these properties is compatible with a materialistic theory of the mind.
He is a passionate atheist who hates materialistic interpretations of our minds.
James Bond has always been a materialistic man.
And we do this for 49 days, which marks the actual day the Jewish people received the precious Torah from God on Mount Sinai- the day heaven kissed earth, the day our bodies became containers of a higher purpose, rather than a shell destined for listless materialistic attempts to coax our aching minds.
In doing so, it pinpoints a hierarchy of thoughts on our road to healing, in which belief in God is simply a first step to the restoration we can attain through yielding materialistic thinking to the consciousness of the Mind that is God.
With one foot still firmly on consecrated ground (and with Galileo's difficulties with the Inquisition very much in mind), he sought to give a materialistic, even mechanistic, dimension to the discussion.
Xia stresses that Dai's reflective method, by which reality is perceived through its reflection (fanying 反映) in the human mind, pertains to basic theories of materialistic epistemology, given that the objective reality (which is external to the subject of comprehension) is seen as a necessary precondition of reflection (Xia 1996b: 405).
They are single-minded, status obsessed, and materialistic.
