Sentence examples for qualities of substances from inspiring English sources

The sensibles soon become treated as occurrent qualities of substances with complex causal profiles.

That is, qualities are the qualities of substances; quantities are the amounts and sizes that substances come in; relations are the way substances stand to one another.

Another obstacle is that we are almost entirely unable to discern the necessary causal connections among the qualities of substances (and Locke does take those connections to be necessary).

Real essences are the submicroscopic constitutions which cause the observable qualities of substances, and the nominal essences are the abstract ideas that constitute the definitions of species or genera.

Mental concepts cannot resemble substances but only qualities of substances (I Sent., q. 1, concl. 7) because the species of substance would have to be a substance itself and our minds would turn into a new substance if we thought of it.

He substantiates this claim by examining a range of central concepts from metaphysics and epistemology, among them the concepts of primary and secondary qualities, of substance and attribute, of quality and relation, space and time, of causality as well as the concept of a thing and that of the self.

Drug use is legalised, state regulation of quality of substances and prices.

The prolongation of the life span of C. obscurior queens by mating with winged males thus can only be explained either by queens detecting the presence or absence of wings in their mates and accordingly adjusting their life-history strategy, by the act of mating itself, or the quantity or quality of substances transferred by the male during copulation proximately affecting life expectancy.

The U.S. EPA administers the Toxic Substances Control Act (1976), the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (1996), and the Safe Drinking Water Act (1974), each of which limits the harmful quality of substances brought into the indoor environment, though not indoor air itself.

Concerns about the quality of substance abuse treatment services are not unique to South Africa as several other countries have reported concerns about the quality of substance abuse treatment [ 10, 11].

This paper describes perceived barriers to implementing a performance measurement system designed to monitor the quality of substance abuse treatment in South Africa.