Sentence examples for proper substances from inspiring English sources

Spinoza's one substance is at the farthest possible remove from Aristotle's proper substances.

His account of substance in the Categories holds individual things, which he terms "proper substances," to be paradigmatic of substance.

But does this mean that, unlike Aristotelian proper substances, which are not predicable of anything else, Spinoza's finite modes are predicable of substance?

The latter discussion revolves generally around epistemological concerns regarding the knowledge of real essences and the nature of substance, in which she argues that spirits must have extension of a sort in order to be proper substances.

Nevertheless, there is method in his madness and proper substance to his act.

I was thrilled to find that he's a painter of proper substance, and the same could be said of the parallel universe he's created with Barratt.

A recovering drinker I know who attends a lot of meetings in church basements once shocked me by commenting that Al-Anon, the fellowship for those affected by a loved one's drinking, is filled with people "so utterly lame that they're not even addicted to a proper substance".

However, while, for Aristotle, Bucephalus is a proper substance, Leibniz regarded Bucephalus not as a substance but as himself comprising a collection of simple substances.

If from inside, then in three different modes: according to one, two or all the three dimensions proper to material substances.

Like Wyclif, Paul thinks of the essence as a universal form intensionally considered, and the existence (taken in the strict sense) as the mode of being proper to primary substances.

His report said some of the practices uncovered were barred by the foundation's guidelines, including the minigrant to the employer of Mr. Ballance's mother, and that some grants were beyond the proper scope of substance abuse programs.