Sentence examples for must be substances from inspiring English sources

The important point for both Strawson and Kant is that there must be substances for there to be a coherent empirical, spatio-temporal world.

I asked, "How is it that the DNA in cells of a forty year old provide the code rise for babies that are zero years old?" I went on to state that there must be substances in the fertilized human egg that resets the genetic clock and that one day we would discover those substances and finally hold the key to extended life.

Since there are composites, Leibniz argued, there must be simple substances that, together, constitute these composites.

Thus, it would seem that if ideas are in God then they too must be either substances in their own right or divine modifications.

But Leibniz, not only like his medieval predecessors but also many of his contemporaries, subscribes to a rather different model one in which a real cause must be a substance or better yet, a faculty of that substance.

However, he argues that in order to be useful, democracy must be given substance.

It then draws the conclusion that a universal cannot be the substance of all of its instances (for it could not be idion to all of them), and concludes that it must be the substance "of none".

Here is what he says: 'It is necessary, then, that the soul must be a substance as the form of a natural body having life in potentiality' (De Anima ii 1, 412a19-21).

She said she has "no first-hand knowledge" of the recent controversies but said, "I don't think people would resign frivolously, so there must be some substance to [their] concerns".

For example, if John's favorite artwork at t is identical with Sally's most valuable possession at t′, there must be a substance sortal, the concept of a statue as it may be, under which John's favorite artwork at t, and Sally's most valuable possession at t′ both fall.

Because Aristotle is quite vociferous in his criticism of this theory in Metaphysics A 6 and 9 and further expands his criticism of ideas as numbers or idea-numbers in books M and N, there must be some substance to that claim.