Sentence examples for mental and material 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.

"The most important explanation for the mental and material backlog we Muslims find ourselves in," Ms. Hirsi Ali has said, "should probably be sought in the sexual morality that we were force-fed from birth".

The Sarvastivadins ("realists" who believe that all things, mental and material, exist and also that all dharmas past, present, and future exist) seceded from the Elders about the middle of the 3rd century bce.

The school holds that neither the self nor the elements that make up the mental and material world have any permanent, changeless reality and that they therefore cannot be said to have any real existence.

Conceptually speaking, many of the pioneering presentations of the proposal nevertheless confused mental and material states (and their properties).

Second, and in keeping with their background empiricism, they mounted an attack on substance, both mental and material.

In other words, the fact would become obvious that they have a history, that they are born of specific relationships, of the links which exist between mental activities and material activities; between slavery (a material practice) and skin colour (a mental practice), between domestic exploitation (a material practice) and sex (a mental practice).

"They may be making a choice that they believe is better for their physical and mental health and material well-being.

At a level at which conscious mental states and material brain states are distinguished, each conscious experience, according to Stapp (1999, p. 153), has as its physical counterpart a quantum state reduction actualizing "the pattern of activity that is sometimes called the neural correlate of that conscious experience".

Autistic people are less likely to have a well-paying job than non-autistic people; many have fewer social contacts and connections outside their immediate family and many also struggle with their mental health and material well-being (e.g. Howlin et al., 2004, 2013; Howlin and Moss, 2012).

Thus not only the mental and the material, but the theoretical and the practical in the mathematical world, are brought into more intimate and effective connection with each other.