Sentence examples for true substance from inspiring English sources

"The teeth of knitted gears / Turn slowly through the night, / But the true substance bears / The hammer's weight," he wrote in "The Adamant".

As chemistry advanced, phlogiston was considered a true substance, and much effort was expended in accounting for the weight changes observed.

But the frustration and disappointment is that we only ever get a photograph of the other, an image of their visible self – a mere shadow of the true substance we really wanted to see.

Although Mr Putin has often seemed a stickler when it comes to respecting constitutional formalities, he and his advisers have become ever more blatant in their flouting of democracy's true substance.

The playing of games (and of games within games) is the true substance of every "Sandbaggers" episode, which is mighty convenient, since Yorkshire Television obviously lacked the budget for the sort of flamboyant Hong Kong-style action spectacle that "Alias" now treats us to each week.

God is thus the only true substance as well as the only true cause.

There is another level of identity that is the real, true, genuine substance of who you are — your authentic self.

True substances (that is, entia per se) are active and self-causing.

First, drawing on principles integral to his metaphysics, Leibniz insists that independence and unity are marks of true substances.

Plato believed that the true substances are not physical bodies, which are ephemeral, but the eternal Forms of which bodies are imperfect copies.

Since they are true substances, and hence can exist independently of any other thing, and since they are absolutely simple, they cannot interact with each other in any way (nonetheless they are created by God, who is one of them—here Spinoza seems rather more consistent than Leibniz).