Sentence examples for universal substance from inspiring English sources

We should have a universal substance control policy, where reasonable social restrictions are placed on consumption of intoxicants and then applied consistently.

Ether, also spelled aether, also called luminiferous ether, in physics, a theoretical universal substance believed during the 19th century to act as the medium for transmission of electromagnetic waves (e.g., light and X-rays), much as sound waves are transmitted by elastic media such as air.

Gleick wouldn't deny any of this, but his focus on information as a prime mover and universal substance leads him to depict its realm as a distinct place at a remove from the larger social world, rather than as an extension of it.

Although there is a universal substance, no group contains all the other groups.

It is this principle of a single universal substance individuated by accidents that Abelard reduces to absurdity.

AC contents of the second line samples were adjusted to 50 μg/mL to give a universal substance background for toxicity comparison.

Their presence is essential to the individual striving for rational perfection, however non-essential from the standpoint of the universal substances themselves.

(i) The first attempts to clarify what characterizes substance, and therefore what falls by itself into that category; (ii) the second is concerned with the distinction between primary (or individual) and secondary (or universal) substances.

The former necessarily entail singular substances as their substrates, since individuals alone can undergo change, while the latter can directly inhere in both individual and universal substances (insunt denominative tam communibus quam singularibus De universalibus, p. 188).

Realism and nominalism were the two major theoretical alternatives in the later Middle Ages concerning the reality and kinds of general objects, and the status and mutual relationships of the basic items of the world (individual and universal substances,individual and universal accidents) as well as their connection to language.

In fact, according to Alyngton's account, saying that Socrates and Plato are first substances simply means that (i) each one is what he is, and that (ii) what each one is is a non-universal substance.