Sentence examples for were not substance from inspiring English sources

The odds of cheating among students were significantly higher for those who went to private high school, were substance users, and didn't attend lectures than for those who attended government schools, were not substance abusers, and attended lectures.

That's not substance; it's thin air.

That's not leadership, that's not substance," he told the Tories' spring forum in Nottingham.

He has to be careful because he has the style of the Macmillan generation, and style is not substance, but he has restored proper, collective cabinet government.

It is clear, however, that if one holds that Aristotle thinks that forms are universals, then forms are not substance, for, in his attacks on Plato, Aristotle makes it plain that universals are not substance.

The term's meaning is not substance, it's an attitude: 'Let any Tom, Dick and Harry hold your data, let any Tom, Dick and Harry do your computing for you (and control it).' Perhaps the term 'careless computing' would suit it better.

For Spinoza, however, human beings are not substances, but finite modes.

Most of this heritable influence is not substance-specific.

Like substance, quantity seems like a reasonable candidate for a highest kind — quantities exist; quantities are not substances; substances are not quantities; and it is not clear what kind would stand above quantity.

But the remainder of the chapter consists of a barrage of arguments to the conclusion that universals are not substances.

These Forms are not substances in the sense of being either the stuff or the individuals or the kinds of individuals out of which all else is constructed.