Sentence examples for sentient substance from inspiring English sources

Jiva, ( Sanskrit: "living substance") in Indian philosophy and religion, and particularly in Jainism and Hinduism, a living sentient substance akin to an individual soul.

This idea of the original luminosity of mind was seemingly grafted onto the idea of an ineradicable "element" or "substance" (dhātu) of enlightened being, eventually resulting in claims that all sentient beings have already within them a seed of enlightenment a luminous capacity for awakening (budh).

This claim is important for Wang's argument, because he takes this reaction to be evidence for the conclusion that our minds are ultimately "one Substance" with everything in the universe, not merely with members of our species, or other sentient creatures, or other living things.

Descartes maintained this distinction by positing a substance dualism of mind and body (and by treating animals as "mere" mechanisms, without consciousness, and humans as rational, sentient beings), and such as Hume and later James Mill respected it (or at least avoided dealing with it) by writing about the contents of conscious minds while keeping well clear of neurophysiology.

More like sentient.

They are sentient beings.

Even a sentient castle.

Is Odi sentient?

I felt sentient again.

Assume readers are sentient.

— that you're fully sentient.