According to one critic (3), sport "has turned into a passion, a mania, a drug far more potent and widespread than any mere chemical substance". It is the new opium of the people.
The misunderstanding is that if the only substances are unextended simple substances, then bodies must be mere illusions.
Specifically, Kant asserts that simple substances fill space not by means of their mere existence, but rather in virtue of their spheres of activity.
If art were mere self-expression, substance and form would fall apart.
Others dismiss the changes as mere symbols, not substance, such as using champagne glasses rather than traditional sake cups for the inaugural toast.
Although, after Keats's death, recognition of the merits of his poetry came slowly, by mid century, despite widespread Victorian disapproval of the alleged "weakness" of his character and the view often advanced "that Keats's work represented mere sensuality without substance", some of his poems began to find an appreciative audience, including "To Autumn".
"For decades we have been looking for the mere presence of substances," he says, "but with these kinds of doping techniques available, this is no longer enough .But what if athletes had genetic enhancements applied early on in their careers, before enrolling in the biological-passport scheme, or even as children?
For honestly believing that real life in our great land had become just one big reality show and that overnight, without benefit of wisdom, knowledge, intellect, experience, ethics, conscience or the merest trace of substance, you wouldn't get voted off the island, could/would dance better than anyone else or be selected the next American Idol rather than the next American Midol.
Compassionate work without valuing others is a mere framework with no substance.
Is the substance a mere mood mirror, or might it be a useful tool for beating the blahs?
