Sentence examples for quality of matter from inspiring English sources

On this interpretation, Spinoza, rather than seeing motion as a received quality of matter, conceives "matter as consequence of motion" (Klever 1988, p. 171).

So while a few commentators interpret Newton as accepting action at a distance, grounded either in a superadded property (Henry 1994) or in a relational quality of matter (Schliesser 2011), his more favorable remarks are at best indirect.

He writes: "A similar mind-like quality of matter reveals itself strongly at the quantum level, in the sense that the form of the wave function manifests itself in the movements of the particles".

Yes, those conditions require matter while instead a matter-less reality for the beginning of the Universe is supposed, but differences in the quality of matter may arise from differences in the quality of sub-space, e.g. in spin operators even where no particles are spinning, only where waves of space are somehow differentiable, if only by size.

Largely outside the above system stands that of the three primal qualities of matter that are called gunas ("qualities").

So, it would seem that for Descartes, secondary qualities are sensible qualities bearing no resemblance to qualities of matter, while primary qualities are qualities belonging to physical objects.

Whereas the other qualities of matter are either given initially, as those qualities constituting the real essence, or else flow from the real essence, superadded qualities are added on after the fact, such that the substance could have been complete without them.

There was a statistically conclusive difference in quality of organic matter in these areas expressed by the carbon content of humus matter, carbon in humic acids and the C N ratio.

Does our quality of life matter to an outsider?

This is where the clarity and quality of vision matter.

The content and quality of organic matter influence biological and biochemical soil properties.