Sentences with phrase «inert substances»

The NOP regulations currently allow for synthetic inerts to be used in conjunction with approved active pesticide ingredients, provided that the synthetic inert substances are:

The body is not an inert substance which is put into action by explicit acts of intending.

Despite having a life of its own, the church takes on the life of its people, becoming them even in the inert substance of its construction: «And its walls shall be hard as!

«Most of us look at our guts and our hips and our love handles and think of fat as an inert substance that merely collects and hangs off of us,» he says.

They found that kava was more effective than the inert substance for ameliorating general anxiety, but the difference between the two was small.

The good news is that activated charcoal isn't absorbed or metabolized by the body, and the inert substance won't aggravate skin allergies.

Not exact matches

To humanely probe the physics of gunshot wounds, and ultimately help police solve crimes and doctors save lives, researchers shoot bullets into inert, flesh - like substances.

Newton saw the world as a marvelous, inert machine, made up of isolated substances that followed the model of a clock.

Appropriately, Eslick writes: «It is likely the polemic against substance was originally motivated by Whitehead's reaction against mechanistic materialism, in which substances are inert, vacuous pieces of matter or stuff» (SCCW 504).

(2) Substance is therefore rightly thought of as both static and passive, hence as lending itself immediately to the notion of an inert stuff or matter.

Examples of imaginable worlds that would be incompatible with process metaphysics are: a world in which the elementary units of nature were enduring substances, especially if they were inert and fully determined; a world in which space and other things existed independently of temporal processes; a world in which an absolute gap separated living and nonliving things, or sentient and insentient individuals, or else a world in which there were no sentient things whatsoever.

Both Sartre and Merleau - Ponty build on Bergsonian along with Husserlian foundations and succeed in answering, to a significant degree the questions surrounding this first concern.77 The second aspect is the metaphysical issue of the concrete relation of the vital and the inert (or being and non-being, if you prefer a traditional vocabulary), including the role of consciousness treated as «a substance spread out through the universe,» to use Merleau - Ponty's description of Bergson.78 In the first aspect we ask what consciousness does and what it experiences or «knows» as a result, while in the second we ask about the relationship between what consciousness is (in relationship to everything else that is) and what that has to do with what it does.79

Indeed, to talk of «substance» here is in itself misleading; for the use of that term, despite all the protests of the neo-Thomists and others, is certain to bring us to think of God in terms of unchanging and unchangeable inert stuff — and to do that is to deny, ab initio, the possibility of a God who responds in complete faithfulness and with the utter integrity of His own nature, yet with deepest awareness and sympathy.

In addition if substance X incorporates substance Y, then Y must cease to exist as Y Material substances, according to Descartes, are inert, lacking all subjectivity.

As synthetic inert ingredients as classified by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), for use with nonsynthetic substances or synthetic substances listed in this section and used as an active pesticide ingredient in accordance with any limitations on the use of such substances.

• substances on EPA List 3 — Inerts of Unknown Toxicity; allowed only for use in passive pheromone dispensers.

(i) Substances permitted for use as inerts in minimal risk products exempt from pesticide registration under FIFRA section 25 (b).

Living forms create virtually all of the substance that flow around the inert grains.»

Whereas glycerin gently encapsulates a substance in its molecular matrix to preserve the characteristics, alcohol has a harsh, denaturing action that alters cell structure and renders vitamins, enzymes, and other beneficial constituents inert.

Although the industry claims this substance is inert, once burned, paraffin releases carcinogenic toxins such as benzene and toluene into the air, where they loiter like a bad house guest.