Sentence examples for substantive entity from inspiring English sources

A metaphysical self, conceived as an abiding and substantive entity, is therefore inconceivable.

Thus, if 'person' (pudgala) is taken to designate a substantive entity that is separate from the bundle of the five aggregates and unconditioned, then that cannot be the Buddhist view (per contra that is the Brahmanical view of the self).

Here consciousness itself is not typically treated as a substantive entity but merely the abstract reification of whatever property or aspect is attributed by the relevant use of the adjective "conscious".

The holistic view implies that the unit of selection is always and only a substantive entity.

This co-ordination is an emergent quality of the substantive entity that does not belong to any of its components.

One may think that a very long time ago in the prior-to-cell world, macromolecular replicators (the ancestors of genes) were substantive entities and evolutionary individuals.

This internal co-ordination is not without challenges, as each entity has different organizational cultures, administrative processes, and substantive expertise.

Any influence the entity is exposed to interacts with the nature in a substantive manner.

Because so many government entities are involved with enforcement of this region, there are substantive jurisdictional issues that arise when addressing responsibility for clean-up.

It prohibits medical school faculty, trainees and students from being authors or co-authors of articles written by employees of commercial entities if the author's name or Columbia title is used without substantive contribution.

First, it could be observed that the ontological exuberance associated with the relevant composition principles is not substantive that the increase of entities in the domain of a mereological theory cum composition principles involves no substantive additional commitments besides those already involved in the underlying theory without composition.