Sentence examples for of substantial things from inspiring English sources

When this happens the cosmic text they constitute is misread under the pretext that the world as such is nothing but a system of substantial things, and that any corresponding language is nothing but a system of signs representing those substantial things.

The eventual result is the world of modern mathematical physics described in Cassirer's earlier scientific works — a pure system of formal relations where, in particular, the intuitive concept of substantial thing has finally been replaced by the relational-functional concept of universal law.

It is only now that I can think of the luxury of a man's children choosing to dispose of the substantial things he might have left for them, choosing to keep only the recipes for pies and cuttings of old roses — choosing memories, as opposed to the real thing, the house.

In fact, most, if not all members of their caucus have done substantial things across party-lines before.

Doha is not going to be an easy conference but we actually managed to get very substantial things out of Durban despite all the predictions.

The article talks about how instead of craving attention she has been doing substantial things in the past few years.

Of substantial, constructive things he "did" (whether you agreed with them or not) I cannot get a list longer than: minimum wage, university tuition fees, foundation hospitals and Iraq.

Strictly speaking, the only substantial things to exist at any level of reality are simple substances.

Nevertheless, there are substantial things to admire about Anti-Social.

More recently, Klemetti's daughter Solja, aged 23, shared the sense of excitement that her mother had once experienced, when she took possession of the "first substantial thing" prior to the baby itself.

Simple recognition of the scale of humanitarian harm from a nuclear weapon is the most substantial thing — hundreds of thousands killed and injured.