Sentence examples for neither substances from inspiring English sources

Relations, which are neither substances nor properties, are not among such elements, if we are speaking with metaphysical rigor.

Leibniz asserts in his last letter that relations are "ideal" because they are neither substances nor accidents, and are therefore not elements of reality (L5: 47).

The view that the fact that Sam is sad contains a substance and a property offends against this principle: substances and properties belong to different kinds and neither substances nor properties, it seems, are facts.

It is to say, that neither substances showed significant effect on large tumours of the small intestine, which have likely been the first to develop, presumably within the first couple of weeks of life before the mice where submitted to treatment.

Properties could not exist without objects to be properties of, but neither could substances exist without properties, so the dependence appears to be mutual.

What makes this current of inquiry distinct is not its concern with "existence" in general, but rather its claim that thinking about human existence requires new categories not found in the conceptual repertoire of ancient or modern thought; human beings can be understood neither as substances with fixed properties, nor as subjects interacting with a world of objects.

In addition, the JEM neither distinguishes substances with different mechanisms or potency for endocrine disruption nor incorporates any possible changes in exposure over time.

Malebranche, it would appear, is forced to abandon his substance-mode ontology: 'I believe that intelligible extension is neither a substance nor a modification of substance, notwithstanding the axiom of the Philosophers [that everything is a either a substance or a mode]' (OC 6 245).

This is a restatement of the position developed by Stein (1968) in his famous exchange with Grünbaum, according to which spacetime is neither a substance, not a set of relations between substances, but a structure in its own right.

A quality may be defined as what is neither substance nor action and yet is the substratum of universals (for universals are supposed to inhere only in substances, qualities, and actions).

For Oresme space is neither substance nor accident.