Sentence examples for unity of matter from inspiring English sources

Still, he does not object to some unity of matter.

The background to this issue arises from Franciscan discussions at Paris on the nature of the unity of matter.

He regards universals as inseparable from particulars and as secondary to them, and stresses the unity of matter and form.

In the end, Kilwardby seems inclined (QLIS 15) to align himself with the view that the unity of matter is analogical, not numerically one.

In (i) the discussion about the unity of matter arises from the questions of whether spiritual beings have matter and whether this matter is in some way common to the matter of corporeal beings (univocally, i.e., whether it is matter in the same sense) (QLIIS 14 16; DOS, chapters 29 31).

And the notorious case of the ship of Theseus see this encyclopedia's entries on material constitution, identity over time, relative identity, and sortals was introduced in modern philosophy by Hobbes as showing a conflict between unity of matter and unity of form as principles of individuation.

"Visitations" offers a rare unity of subject matter and acoustic experience and hints at what this impressive new concert hall is capable of.

David Hein, a professor of religious history at Hood College in Maryland who has written about Episcopalians, said the Anglican Communion has been moving toward greater unity on matters of faith and doctrine for at least 50 years, as the denomination grows in disparate parts of the world.

The environmental focus in this kind of scientific enquiry demonstrates the ultimate unity of the subject matter of science.

For her, there is an underlying unity of mind and matter in that the world is a "self-realizing" system containing a multiplicity of other such systems (cf. Næss).

Much more important is the attempt to take seriously the variety and mutability discerned by sense experience and yet to reconcile them with the thesis of Parmenides about the unity and the immutability of matter.