Sentences with phrase «matter as the substance»

The consequence of the conception of matter as itself substance was an ineluctable metaphysical dualism, which had been explicitly accepted by Basso and Galileo and was then systematically developed by Descartes.

In my previous lecture I criticized the concept of matter as the substance whose attributes we perceive.

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The study of history is arid and incomplete unless it is understood as a work about (and by) individual human beings — and, moreover, a story whose substance and manner of telling are matters of moral significance.

Every created agent is limited to bringing about a change in form only (a sheep can transform grass into its own body matter by digestion), but God — as the ultimate cause of all being — can surely bring about changes at the level of being: converting one entire substance into another.

As a matter of theology, the word asserts that «whatever is divine» in Jesus, his deity, is as truly and fully divine as very God himself; but as a matter of religious conviction and experience, it is the assertion that very God, in all his mystery and in all his glory, is of «one substance with,» is the same reality as, that which in Jesus Christ we have been given to see and know and touch and feeAs a matter of theology, the word asserts that «whatever is divine» in Jesus, his deity, is as truly and fully divine as very God himself; but as a matter of religious conviction and experience, it is the assertion that very God, in all his mystery and in all his glory, is of «one substance with,» is the same reality as, that which in Jesus Christ we have been given to see and know and touch and feeas truly and fully divine as very God himself; but as a matter of religious conviction and experience, it is the assertion that very God, in all his mystery and in all his glory, is of «one substance with,» is the same reality as, that which in Jesus Christ we have been given to see and know and touch and feeas very God himself; but as a matter of religious conviction and experience, it is the assertion that very God, in all his mystery and in all his glory, is of «one substance with,» is the same reality as, that which in Jesus Christ we have been given to see and know and touch and feeas a matter of religious conviction and experience, it is the assertion that very God, in all his mystery and in all his glory, is of «one substance with,» is the same reality as, that which in Jesus Christ we have been given to see and know and touch and feeas, that which in Jesus Christ we have been given to see and know and touch and feel.

For Whitehead the polarity of «physical» and «mental» pole is primarily intended to supersede Cartesian dualism that posits spirit and matter as separate substances.

It usually refers to the real substance or essential nature of something (though what those terms precisely mean is a matter of philosophical discussion); so Hebrews 11:1 is more getting at faith as providing substance to a future we hope for — that their hope for the future, through faith, becomes a present reality to affect their actions.

Zod's apologia, «every action I take, no matter how violent or how cruel, is for the greater good of my people,» would be out of place in a Trump speech as a matter of style, but not of substance.

This apparent incapacity of Aristotelian substances to enter into intrinsic relations with one another seems to have struck Whitehead as distinctive of matter or stuff, hence to lend itself readily to the viewpoint of materialistic mechanism.

(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.

So if Santayana is not an «event ontologist» like Whitehead, it is not because he thinks ordinary continuants or «primary substances» are ontologically more basic than events, which he does not, but because he speaks of the derivation of one event from another as the transmission of matter or substance, in the sense of ulh, from one to another.

For Santayana, «matter» is the appropriate name for such «substance» as the character possessed by the substance of our actual world (see RB 234).

Second, there is the notion of substance or matter, ulh or upokeimenon, in Aristotle's sense, as that which in combination with form constitutes such an individual ousia.

It prescinds, however, from the substance of the moral questions involved» the rightness or wrongness of slavery or legalized abortion and euthanasia as a matter of public policy.

According to its founders, Divine Science «has always taught that so - called matter is pure divine energy manifesting as form; it repeatedly points out that Substance is Spirit.»

«We speak on this subject very cautiously and diffidently,» he writes, «rather by way of discussion than coming to definite conclusions... We suppose that the goodness of God will restore the whole creation to unity in the end... If anyone thinks that matter will be utterly destroyed, it passes my comprehension how all these substances can live and exist without material bodies, since to live without material substance is the privilege of God alone... Another perhaps may say that in the consummation all matter will be so purified that it may be thought of as a kind of ethereal substance... But only God knows.»

He judged that as literature the Gospels are too artless and historical to convey the taste and feel of genuine myth, but he recognized that the substance of the gospel narrative «was precisely the matter of the great myths.»

Whence it is necessary that there be in any intelligent substance a complete freedom from matter, such that the substance does not have matter as a part of, such too that the substance is not a form impressed on matter, as is the case with material forms.

PG: As I understand Spinoza, this bed, for example, is a modus of the matter, one of the substance's attributes.

The «something more than mere matter in matter» is the concept of the entities of nature as not being substance or mere objects.

No matter what the Existentialists may claim, to suppose that the Duration ahead of us resembles a virgin, «isotropic» substance into which we may cut as we please, as expediency dictates and in any direction, is positively and scientifically incorrect.

Nor are we saying (e.g., with Descartes) that mind and matter are to be considered as two independently existent substances.

Just as matter required form for Aristotle, and just as esse required substance for Aquinas, creativity requires the «ingression» of eternal objects for a process metaphysics.

Spiderman is manmade as were the gods of antiquity whereas God is not of manmade substance or matter known to man.

Descartes» division of temporal substances into mind and matter, with each being understood as requiring nothing else but itself to exist, is an example of a fundamental incoherence in his thought.

Hence the determinable element in a composite substance is the pure potency of matter which is ordered to form as that which substantially completes it.

What matters to us here is that these virtues provide a general definition of civility — of the stance of a person who, as far as possible, is deliberately and carefully related (attentively and openly, veraciously and responsibly) to all members of the human race, so far as they are encountered in one's life, yet makes these relations the substance of a resolutely critical and independent personality.

Bowel movements are even more likely to cause a rash, as fecal matter contains dangerous substances that can be highly irritating.

The stories of judges becoming very wealthy on bribes paid by litigants in election petitions and other high profile cases have become more pervasive and in matters of the sanctity of the judicial process, appearances are at least as important as the substance.

The language, the mirage, the smoke and mirrors, it all matters as much as the substance.

Perception, as well as substance, matters, he conceded — a touch ungracious there.

APRIL 1860 ELECTRIC THEORY — «The results of the experiments instituted by Sir William Grove are exceedingly curious, and must be regarded as all but proving the truth of the modern theory, which assumes that electricity is not, in any sense, a material substance but only an affection (state) or motion of the particles of ordinary matter.

Background Matter, such as a solid, liquid or gas, is defined as «a substance that has mass and takes up space by having volume.»

Such particles have also been proposed as a candidate for dark matter, the unknown substance that makes up most of the matter in the...

The X-ray «line,» as it is known, could reveal the presence of dark matter — an unknown substance...

Others speculated that the extra positrons have an exotic origin, perhaps coming from as - yet undetected processes involving dark matter — the invisible but pervasive substance seen so far only through its gravitational pull.

They interpreted it as the debris left behind when particles of dark matter — the mysterious substance that makes up most of the matter in the universe yet refuses to interact with ordinary matter except through gravity — crashed together and annihilated each other in the centre of the Milky Way.

Colleagues tend to view substance use disorders as a rather private matter and therefore primarily an area non-intrusional, despite the potentially serious consequences for both the doctors in question and their patients,» says Johanne Korsdal Sørensen.

Coal plants are one of the largest contributors to atmospheric particulate matter and ozone — which are linked to worsened asthma and increased rates of heart attacks and premature death — as well as greenhouse gases and toxic substances, including mercury.

Dark matter, the mysterious substance that constitutes most of the material universe, remains as elusive as ever.

Back then, all stars needed to form was a primordial soup of mostly hydrogen and some helium atoms, perturbed by the effects of gravity on minuscule differences in the density of the gases, and the mysterious substance known as dark matter.

(Dark matter is a mysterious, theorized substance thought to account for one quarter of the universe's mass, some five times as much as ordinary matter provides.)

The results may reveal something profound about how galaxies form — or even about the very nature of the mysterious substance known as dark matter.

Some of these substances interact to form ground - level ozone, as well as fine particulate matter.

Dark matter is an unseen substance that does not, as CERN explains, absorb, reflect or emit electromagnetic radiation such as light.

Some of these x-ray flashes may come from explosions with a relatively large amount of baryonic matter such as protons that produce a «dirty fireball» with higher inertia from their substance, so that the fireball expands slower and is less energetically able to boost photons into the gamma - ray range.

Fulvic acid is a humic substance that is created as organic matter decomposes.

Fulvic acid is defined as a «humic substance,» meaning that it is a major component of organic matter.

Many people have told me all the disgusting matter they see in their bowels after cleansing such as parasites, gunk, mucoid plaque, bacteria, hard disk - like substances, etc..

As a matter of fact, even children have human growth hormone in their bodies, and indeed a great deal of it, because human growth hormone is the substance that actually funnels growth in the early years of life.