Sentence examples for sensible substances from inspiring English sources

These features are grounded in the activities and natural powers of sensible substances.

They include the following, among others: Are sensible substances the only ones that exist, or are there others besides them?

The problem, he says, is that "sensation … brings to the intellect sensible substances and intellectual ones united to bodies [i.e., souls].

Even Metaphysics xiii and xiv, the two books devoted primarily to discussions of the nature of mathematical objects, are really concerned with diffusing Platonist positions that there are immutable and eternal substances over and beyond sensible substances and Pythagorean positions that identify numbers with sensible substances.

It seems clear, nevertheless, that if the two works had to be distinguished, the Physica would have to be described as the more empirical, just because it deals with things that are objects of the senses, what Aristotle himself called "sensible substance"; the subject matter of the Metaphysica, "that which is eternal, free of movement, and separately existent," is on any account more remote.

Or maybe the fact that she's become the Manhattan bombshell known as "TAYLOR SWIFT" and there never seems to be ego, just sensible substance.

The same holds true for other characteristic properties of a substance, the sensible qualities: they are not distinct from their substance.

Enough is known about mind-affecting substances for sensible people not to use them, and certainly not too much of them.

Because the minima had acquired more physical reality, it then became necessary to know how the properties of the minima could be connected with the sensible properties of a substance.

The view that the sensibles are modifications of substances is then supplemented with the notion that they possess a subsidiary and analogous being-for-mind that explains our ability to apprehend them directly (unlike causal dispositions) and to be sometimes mistaken about their presence.

William speaks of the intellect as able, under the prompting of the senses, to consider the substances that underlie sensible accidents, and speaks of the intellect as "abstracting" from sense experience in the sense that it forms concepts of so-called "vague individuals" by stripping away perceptible features that serve to distinguish one individual from another.