Sentence examples for the substantial form from inspiring English sources

Co-founder Richard Shepherd recently sold his stake, and the group is under new management, in the substantial form of Brian Clivaz, who has made successes of the private members' clubs Home House and the Dover Street Arts Club.

The substantial form of Artie Van Blarcum caught midair in 1975 as he dove into Grassy Sound, an inlet of the Atlantic in southern New Jersey, foreshadows the substantial rocks in "Buckstones, Scammonden Moor, Yorkshire, England" (1990), in which a boy is shown crawling along a rock that sits above another jutting over the water.

Today, he will prove himself true to his word by fast-tracking a group of young Premiership players – not to mention a young Celtic League player in the substantial form of the Scarlets No 8 Ben Morgan – into representative contention at the expense of some of the biggest names in English rugby.

In that sense, any substantial form whatsoever will be immaterial, including the substantial form of an oak tree or the substantial form of a dog.

And so also is the substantial form of the human immaterial in that sense.

But what is the relation between the substantial form and those properties?

Consequently, some hypotheses, such as the "substantial forms" of scholastics, were ruled out.

Thomas argued that the substantial forms of the elements are destroyed and that only the qualities contribute to the mixture.

Averroes rejects Avicenna's theory and argues that the substantial forms of the elements are diminished in the compound (Comm. magnum De caelo III.67).

So the substantial forms of bodies, particularly the souls of living bodies, are in general material forms with the exception of the intellectual soul.

Unlike the substantial forms derided by early modern philosophers as dormitive virtues, properties will pay their way by doing interesting and important work.