Sentence examples for materialistic terms from inspiring English sources

If it helps, consider your museum and its collection in purely materialistic terms, as a big chunk of capital, slowly and fortuitously accumulated.

According to Leibniz, perceptions cannot be explained in mechanical or materialistic terms.

These structures in turn manifest capacities whose explication cannot be given in crude materialistic terms; for materialistic terms, as Aristotle understands them, fail to account for the fact that mature members of species cease growing, having realized the structures characteristic of their kind.

My problem is: should I try to exploit the fact I have such a powerful being helping me out or should I just 'enjoy the ride' and try not to think about it in materialistic terms?

Descartes' materialistic interpretation of the term 'idea' in this context is striking.

"There were senseless killings over these materialistic items".

Although lower castes such as Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes are disadvantaged in terms of social standing and materialistic wealth [13], recent studies supported views that economic well-being, such as standard of living, is a more favorable indicator of mortality and morbidity burden than social caste as an intrinsic risk factor [8], [9], [14].

The good news is that our study showed that students who have taken part in short-term mission trips are less materialistic, appreciate other cultures more and better understand missions as a lifestyle.

The downtrodden are also those who find themselves surrounded by others who seem endlessly selfish and materialistic, or people who see you only in terms of what they can get from you, how you can be part of their plan for themselves, how you can advance their interests.

Recent debates on informal economic activities have partially switched away from a pure monetary logic towards a more complex one, embedded in long term relations and reckoning with non materialistic paradigms.

The appeal of meaning-preserving functional characterizations, therefore, is that in providing topic-neutral equivalents of our mental state terms and concepts, they blunt the anti-materialistic force of the Distinct Property Argument.