Sentences with phrase «pure matter»

The featured artists approach text in a variety of ways; as pure matter, as metaphor, as specific content, as texture or atmosphere, and as concept.

Both ultimately occur within the realm of consciousness, even the tendency toward pure matter.

Aristotle (384 - 322BCE), Plato's most brilliant pupil, thought there was a great chain of being from pure matter, which is unknowable, at the bottom, to pure form, which is God, at the top.

Poetically, they create metaphoric equilibrium and transcend pure matter.

He is neither pure spirit, like God and the angels, nor pure matter, like the animals and plants.

The third Logos is linked with the concrete Sofia, unifying pure ideas and pure matter.

By book II, chapter xxiii, Locke seems to have made up his mind: «Pure spirit, viz., God, is only active; pure matter is only passive» and spirits not merely «perhaps» but unqualifiedly are both (E-I 414).

From the physical sciences there spread over the conception of all existence an ontology whose model entity is pure matter, stripped of all features of life.

To me quality, and pure matters.

This is a pure matter of geometry, which you can verify by using a device of the painters for measuring the picture size of an object: Take a pencil in your fist, hold it at arm's length, and mark off on it with your thumb so much space as is necessary to cover the object.

Usability expert Jakob Nielsen is pessimistic: «It's a pure matter of technology: The screen resolution is too bad.

«This literary quality comes from diving into various social and personal narratives, but also from suddenly coming down -LRB-...) to revelations of the abstract, the concealed and the pure matter of photography, or even of light itself.

Her paintings are at - light - speed travelogues through the pure matter of paint and gesture.

If anything, Seliger endows his paintings with a clear - eyed, forward - looking vision that celebrates our inevitable return to pure matter.

So as a pure matter of fact, you are wrong.

I am persuaded by the defendants» submissions that assuming without deciding that Al - Bakkal may have a cause of action as a pure matter of law, the concurrent jurisdiction of this court ought not be exercised given what I see in the circumstances is the required deference to the university's appeal mechanism.