Sentences with phrase «rather than a substance»

But when a company rebrands after it's failed to launch successful new products, and that rebranding makes no sense whatsoever, it's a sign that it has run out of ideas and is now focusing on appearances rather than substance.

Metaphysics is considered to be an event - ontology rather than a substance - ontology.

@cw You've just committed a genetic fallacy by discrediting and organization based on its religious background rather than the substance.

Moreover, such an act — even if done regularly — would be primarily symbolic, and U.S. international religious freedom policy has for too long been characterized by symbols rather than substance.

A culture of cynicism and emphasis on form rather than substance encourages light gestures rather than strong commitment.

A «thing» is thought of as a constant pattern through repetition rather than a substance or a material object in the old sense.

But because modern efforts at Christian unity are often heavy on symbolism rather than substance (the harder thing to achieve), a meeting between the Patriarch of Moscow and the Pope of Rome was held out as a tantalizing prize for Catholic ecumenists, one that could be used to extract concessions at some necessary moment.

Because a U-turn of such a scale would be politically difficult I expect that instead there will be a series of minor policy adjustments over the next few months that will be sold as a change in emphasis rather than substance.

This is at odds with moments of doubt I have about him; doubts which are more to do with the style of expressing his ideas rather than the substance behind them.

The hosts of MSNBC's «Morning Joe» echoed that charge, criticizing de Blasio earlier this month for making his decision based on personal feelings toward Moskowitz, rather than the substance of the issue.

Secondly, the row about David's face being airbrushed damaged him as it seemed to confirm the suspicion that he is all image rather than substance.

The molecule — called VCP — is a component of the infected cell rather than a substance produced by the virus itself.

Though the effects of swishing oil in the mouth have shown a decrease in mouth bacteria and plaque, this may also be due to the mechanism of swishing for a long period of time, rather than the substance itself.

Although these scenes — which have titles like «Stridentism / Creationism (the punk rocker)» and «Vorticism / Blue Rider / Abstract / Expressionism (the CEO)» — are organised roughly by category, Rosefeldt's interest is in a manifesto's form rather than its substance.

Except, in piecing together its under - developed, gimmick - fuelled mystery, the film's primary motivation is showmanship rather than substance.

They can be pretty great, especially since one byproduct of awards season is a tendency to talk about superficialities rather than substance, and these talks can really dig into the meat of making movies.

The Revenant, while entertaining from moment to moment, ultimately feels like film school on a much grander and more experienced scale - but with the same tendency to overindulge in technique and form, rather than substance and feel.

This government will always try to sell the appearance rather than the substance, otherwise why the repeated mantra of «council - run schools», i.e. an Aunt Sally argument.

Therefore, people who buy cars on style or flash rather than substance probably will not like it.

Singing from the hymnal and reading aloud from the liturgical responses, I fell in love with the meter of Protestantism rather than its substance.

Anyway, a grammar - nazi, within the meaning of my comment above, is someone who picks on the form of the expression rather than the substance of the discussion, and the problem of form does not have to lie strictly in the area of grammar.

Both inspired a huge backlash when they were first discovered, but how much of this was due to the manner of this discovery, rather than its substance?

I hate to comment on style, rather than substance.

It is difficult for me to give an answer to your question because I haven't seen a comparison between the two documents, but I had a quick read of the updated version and it seems perfectly reasonable to me, so I strongly suspect the differences are ones of emphasis rather than substance.

It struck me as a form of the appeal to «civility», a well - worn tactic for derailing debates about important things into arguments about tone rather than substance.

The press response to their study has therefore been almost totally dominated by the error at the beginning of the report, rather than the substance of their work on the impacts.

There is some difference in how you present arguments on paper as opposed to in oral argument, but the distinction is largely one of style rather than substance.

This means that the form, rather than the substance, of the Disability Certificate is the deciding factor in whether or not an application has been made for a benefit.

Please leave a comment or send an email if you are aware of LAPs that are working with impairments related to aging, rather than substance abuse or mental illness, with links to any relevant materials.

Systematically engage emotion to create bonding moments that support the addict in reaching out to their partner rather than their substance / behavior of choice

Not exact matches

In other words, while the substance remains largely the same, the presentation has been given a considerable makeover: the new policy is considerably shorter, written in English rather than legalese, and reformatted (more space and color) for an easier reading experience.

The foundation will be headed up by Derek Yach, a former World Health Organization (WHO) executive who has been a notable advocate for the switch to e-cigarettes that heat, rather than burn, nicotine - packed substances.

THE Jewish advantage in the professions, then, is rather shadow than substance, and so, but much more so, is the Jewish importance in politics.

As far as the substance, Davidoff tells us that research shows that the tax will increase rather than decrease volatility.

Justice Gascon considered that the appeal should have been resolved on the basis of the doctrine of interjurisdictional immunity rather than on the basis of the pith and substance doctrine.

When I talk to God in prayer, I am talking to something deep within the fabric of my own being and asking for a better way, a better idea, and intuitive thought rather than to have some trivial thing of substance delivered to me on a platter.

The reference, Benedict insists, is to substance, rather than, as in the translation by Luther and a current translation approved by the German bishops, to inner conviction.

But Betel strongly believes in advocating abstinence in drug and alcohol treatment rather than tolerating continued substance use.

Naturally, all serious students of Whitehead know that societies rather than actual entities are the true counterparts to the Aristotelian notion of substance.

We have here an updated version of Kant's criticism of the Leibnizian monad in the «Amphiboly» in the Critique of Pure Reason: the spatially situated existent is indeed made up of relations rather than being a substance containing its «inhering» attributes internally as predicates which are part of its concept; only the relations are no longer those of the synthetically connected manifold, but the relational connections between the particulars of modern functional or mathematical logic, expanded to include within itself the spatial and temporal relations which Kant could only account for by means of the synthetic a priori.

All of these motifs are united in Whitehead, and all but the clear rejection of substance as relevant to ethics and as implying the primacy of unit - events rather than unit - things or persons, were in Peirce.

Yet it is a very different kind of substance, mental rather than physical, thinking rather than extended.

The fundamental character of reality, rather than being made up of isolated substances, is relational and creative; relationality is the matrix of creativity.

Such a proposal in no way invalidates the search for doctrinal forms that are consistent with the substance of the biblical revelation; it merely means that their discovery will constitute but a halfway house rather than the journey's destination itself These doctrinal forms will then have to be adapted to and translated in terms of the assumptions and norms of the American situation in such a way that the Word of God is preserved in its integrity but affirmed in its contemporaneity.

Yet since the account of substance offered is of a route of occasions or a personally ordered society of selves rather than of, say, a changing continuant, the objection may be raised that this atomization of substance involves an enormous multiplication of entities which in the case of selves at least goes well beyond necessity — though this would have to be shown.

I shall, therefore, hereafter adopt Owens» recommendation and usually write «Entity» (with an upper - case «E») to denote Aristotle's term ousia, rather than continue to use the unfortunate term «substance».

Thus, after all, the fundamental constituents of the world are for him «events,» each actualizing its own essence, together with (as the obscure bond between them is most readily described) the substance which they inherit from their predecessors and pass on to their successors, rather than persisting continuants changing their accidental properties while retaining their essence.

Second, you will have noticed that I speak of events of various kinds rather than of substances.

His doctrine of two separate substances, extended matter and thinking mind, each sort of substance requiring, with God bracketed out of the picture, nothing other than itself in order to exist, rather unceremoniously threw mind, that is, distinctively human being, out of nature and left philosophy with the hopeless task of trying to figure out how a mind outside of nature, a mind not of nature, could ever really come to know nature.

God is a process or function rather than a being or substance.