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Example sentences for "corporeal substance"

  • That we have a direct, intellectual insight into the specific essence or nature of a corporeal substance such as gold, similar to our insight into the abstract essence of a triangle?

  • Ask a man not tainted with their jargon wt he means by corporeal substance, or the substance of body.

  • Hence, it is plain that the very notion of what is called Matter or corporeal substance, involves a contradiction in it.

  • The only thing whose existence we deny is that which philosophers call Matter or corporeal substance.

  • But, since you are unwilling to have your notion of corporeal substance examined, I shall urge that point no farther.

  • How then do you affirm that colours are in the light; since by LIGHT you understand a corporeal substance external to the mind?

  • But the denying Matter, Philonous, or corporeal Substance; there is the point.

  • Relation of Corporeal Substance to its Accidents 340 V.

  • Of Man Who Is Composed of a Spiritual and a Corporeal Substance: and in the First Place, Concerning What Belongs to the Essence of the Soul 76.

  • Therefore an angel is a corporeal substance.

  • But it is clear that every created spirit needs corporeal substance.

  • Hence he concludes that what distinguishes incorporeal from corporeal substance is a kind of form to it, and whatever is subject to this distinguishing form, as it were something common, is its matter.

  • And thus we may easily have two clear and distinct notions or ideas, the one of created substance, which thinks, the other of corporeal substance, provided we carefully distinguish all the attributes of thought from those of extension.

  • Thus, extension in length, breadth, and depth, constitutes the nature of corporeal substance; and thought the nature of thinking substance.

  • For if corporeal substance could be so divided that its parts could be really distinct, why could not one part be annihilated, the rest remaining, as before, connected with one another?

  • No corporeal substance behaves in this way.

  • Gabirol means by it that which remains of a corporeal substance when we take away from it everything that qualifies it as being here or there, of a particular nature or size, in a given relation, and so on.

  • Hence a spiritual substance must be composite, for it must have something by which it differs from a corporeal substance, and something, viz.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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