Yet Sendak has given the dream substance, the trappings of reality exactly as he did in "The Wild Things" where tree trunks sprang naturally from the carpeted bedroom floor.
I'm willing to hear the argument that Kevin Bacon is some Spinozan substance comprising all of reality, everything being just different modes and modulations of Kevin Bacon.
Kirby (1997: 24) claimed there that '[i]f the problematic identity of the sign cannot be measured and explained by reference to the stable and solid substance of an anterior reality, then the enigma of the sign can be generalized to include that reality'.
In particular, Autrecourt rejected some of the main tenets of scholastic metaphysics and epistemology, such as the substance-accident structure of reality and the principle of causality.
In contrast to the substance-metaphysical snapshot view of reality, with its typical focus on eternalist being and on what there is, process philosophers analyze becoming and what is occurring as well as ways of occurring.
Substance metaphysicians recast this intuition as the claim that the primary units of reality (called "substances") must be static they must be what they are at any instant in time.
In the selections of the final section, from his Hanover writings of 1677 1686, Leibniz abandons his earlier transcreationism and atomism in favor of the theory of corporeal substance, where the reality of body and motion is founded in substantial form or force.
Friedson shows how the sound of the ng'oma drum, the clapping of the choir, call-and-response singing, and the jangle of tin belts and iron anklets do not simply accompany other more important ritual activities they are the very substance of a sacred clinical reality.
For example, criticism for naturalistic abiogenesis is accompanied by stating that an influential critic of the theory ("cells cannot be born out of inorganic substance in reality or in theory") is "an atheistic Nobel-prize winner" (Reinikainen [2011]).
Yet from Leibniz's point of view, the only elements of reality are substances and their properties.
