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But Locke's empiricism had difficulty with certain key concepts, such as substance, "which we neither have nor can have by sensation or reflection," and cause, about which he largely anticipated David Hume's difficulties in the 18th century.

Attached micro-organisms secrete extracellular polymeric substances, which we deduce must also provide an additional element of chemical adhesion to mechanically interlocked mesoscopic and macroscopic biomatter.

Despite these advances, chemists continued to develop theories about two substances which we no longer accept: caloric and phlogiston.

Mr Warburton said: "We've identified things like wood, plastic - there are one or two other substances which we're having subjected to forensic analysis to ensure they are not hazardous.

Among substances, which we synthesized for urokinase inhibition tests, the two most active were 1,2-benzisothiazol-3-ylguanidine (IC50 = 33  μM) and its 5-bromo derivative (4 20  μM).

Love is the building blocks of creation, love is the substance from which we are made.

Basically, we aren't having a real argument about the economic substance, on which we appear to agree.

But this same substance from which we make our daily crockery can also give us new ideas – ancient earth turned into contemporary sculpture.

Finally, let us consider how Aristotle fares according to the criteria of substance with which we ended the introduction.

As he continues, he says that the only substance of which we can possess evident knowledge is his own soul Nicholas of Autrecourt espoused the most radical form of skepticism found at any point during the Middle Ages, and he was punished for it.

Directly after rejecting atomic theories, he says "if we apply the term elements, or principles of bodies, to express our idea of the last point which analysis is capable of reaching, we must admit, as elements, all the substances into which we are capable, by any means, to reduce bodies by decomposition" (1789, p. xxiv).