Thales thought its primal substance was water, Anaximenes air, Heraclitus fire.
At the extreme energies and temperatures of the Big Bang, the matter-making particles and the force-carrying particles were fused together into a single primal substance, separating into individual entities only later on.
For him, the "information" we worry is engulfing us is just another manifestation of the primal substance that underlies all of biological life and the physical universe — we are "creatures of the information," in his phrase, in more than just our genetic or chemical makeup.
Daodejing praises the infant's closeness to the Dao in its freedom from outside impressions, and Zhuangzi describes the spiritual beings nurtured on primal substances, air and dew, as having the faces of children.
In the catalog for Mr. McCarthy's retrospective, Lisa Phillips, the director of the New Museum, described such materials as metaphors "for the primal substances of life — blood, pus, urine, feces, sperm, milk, sweat," erasing the boundary between the "interior of the body and the exterior world".
It also has a more primal meaning.
In cooking, the primal scene, or substance, is salt, sugar, and fat held in maximum solution with starch; add protein as necessary, and finish with caffeine (coffee or chocolate) as desired.
Nevertheless, a coating, surely the cambium of reticular formation of organic compounds Primal SF, as the membranoid substance fell off from the substrate of treated sample at 78 cycles.
It's a primal, powerful, physical need for a substance.
The oral sensations not only satisfy foodies, but also on a primal level, protect animals from toxic substances.
But whereas Spinoza had characterized this single, all-encompassing principle as substance, Herder instead characterizes it as force, or primal force.
