Sentence examples for substance theory from inspiring English sources
Many reject the substance theory because they think it entails that something could exist without any properties whatsoever.
According to the substance theory, an individual is an entity distinct from its properties in which those properties inhere.
Then, given the bundle theorist's offered theory of predication, (10) is not true, even at t. Consider now the substance theory.
The relativist proponent of the substance theory might claim that the object constituent of (10) is a bare particular, independent of all its properties in which all those properties inhere.
So Williams's view is a No-Substance theory, or, otherwise described, a theory in which each trope is itself a simple Humean substance, capable of independent existence.
Insofar as some natural bodies are described as consisting entirely of water (or of a part of water, as in A46 where "the sweet portion" of the water is drawn up from the sea and separated off), it would be best to understand Xenophanes' "two-substance theory" in a distributed sense: all things are either earth, or water, or earth combined with water.
Untreated depression may also result in substance abuse, a theory based on the 'self medication' theories of addictive behavior.
We should be totally preoccupied with whether anyone can knock Leicester and the Leinster off their plinths, which Lions will kick on strongest following their summer achievements and whether there is substance to the theory that playing standards in the club game have never been higher.
Those interested in the mathematical substance of learning theory will find some references in the Bibliography, and a summary of the basic definitions in the Supplementary Document.
Perhaps Seneca's depictions of the mental act that the Greek Stoics call assent appear in some sense richer than those of the earlier Stoics (without changing the substance of the theory), because Seneca likes to use metaphorical language.
At that time, the major question in our minds was how much substance the dominant theory of immuno-surveillance of carcinogenesis might actually have and to what extent immunity played a role in cancer resistance.
