Sentences with phrase «physical substance of matter»

Just like film stills, the works of Villar Rojas are objects filled with time, devices that narrate time through images, from prehistoric finds to the most futuristic, or post-apocalyptic, landscapes, recording it in the physical substance of matter, in a constant process of evolution and decay.

Not exact matches

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

Following upon his reconstruction of the concepts of infinity, matter and motion Leclerc argued that at the intersection of such basic insights into physical existence, lurks confusion about the status of compound substances.

An occasion is a throb of experience, so of course its «physical pole» can not consist of matter, in the sense of a permanent unfeeling substance; and consciousness is too slight and occasional to define the «mental pole.

One can at least glimpse how physical theory might someday provide an account of «spiritual substances [capable] of coherently interacting with matter,» all within a framework fitting pretty comfortably with the current structure of physical law yet allowing for mental or spiritual agency, including the possibility of free will.

Central and basic was the concept of matter, for matter was the physical substance constituting the realm of nature and was thus the principle object of scientific inquiry.

From the press release: «The theory of materialism, in modern philosophy, maintains that substance and matter are the only physical realities.

In particular a missing substance dubbed «Cold Dark Matter» is required to explain the existence of the physical structure of reality.

The theory of materialism, in modern philosophy, maintains that substance and matter are the only physical realities.

Anchored in their physical substance they transcend mere matter - of - factness and open the mind to complex geometries of thought and feeling, what Agnes Martin once referred to as «non-objective experiences.»

The Court is correct that «[c] arbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, and hydrofluorocarbons,» ante, at 26, fit within the second half of that definition: They are «physical, chemical,... substance [s] or matter which [are] emitted into or otherwise ente [r] the ambient air.»

SCALIA, J. (Dissenting, page 08): «Air pollutant» is defined by the Act as «any air pollution agent or combination of such agents, including any physical, chemical,... substance or matter which is emitted into or otherwise enters the ambient air.»

Since greenhouse gases come within the capacious phrase «any physical, chemical,... substance or matter which is emitted into or otherwise enters the ambient air,» they must also be «air pollution agent [s] or combination [s] of such agents,» and therefore meet the definition of «air pollutant [s].»

Page 26 (Opinion): The statutory text reads: «The Clean Air Act's sweeping definition of «air pollutant» includes «any air pollution agent or combination of such agents, including any physical, chemical... substance or matter which is emitted into or otherwise enters the ambient air.»