Word Finder - immaterial

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Having no matter or substance.

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Because ghosts are immaterial, they can pass through walls.

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So insubstantial as to be irrelevant.

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Objection, Your Honour! The defendant's criminal record is immaterial to this case.

The immaterial in man is the expansive force inherent in him.

In other respects the difference between the two birds seems to be immaterial.

The distance of the eye from the lens is here immaterial.

The patient's consent is immaterial, since its absence would merely signify mental incompetence.

It is generally believed that he was imported in Anne's reign, but the exact date is immaterial, for, assuming that he was brought over as early as 1700 from Aleppo, he could scarcely have had a foal living before 1701, the first year of the 18th century.

He agrees with Leibnitz in the analysis of the material into the immaterial, but with Lotze in holding that the many immaterial elements coexist and interact.

The link by which they are connected is of a higher and immaterial nature; and their connexion is to be sought in the view of the Creator himself, whose aim in forming the earth, in allowing it to undergo the successive changes which geology has pointed out, and in creating successively all the different types of animals which have passed away, was to introduce man upon the surface of our globe.

Heraclitus holds that nothing material can be thought of without this Logos, but he does not conceive the Logos itself to be immaterial.

For while he maintains constantly his favourite maxim "that there is nothing in the intellect which has not been in the senses" (nihil in intellectu quod non pries fuerit in sensu), while he contends that the imaginative faculty (phantasia) is the counterpart of sense - that, as it has to do with material images, it is itself, like sense, material, and essentially the same both in men and brutes; he at the same time admits that the intellect, which he affirms to be immaterial and immortal - the most characteristic distinction of humanity - attains notions and truths of which no effort of sensation or imagination can give us the slightest apprehension (Op. ii..383).

It is readily seen, in regard to the first of them, that all attempts to determine the nature of the ego as a simple, perdurable, immaterial substance rest upon a confusion between the ego as pure logical unity and the ego as object of intuition, and involve a transcendent use of the categories of experience.

How can I express the values of a thing at once so essential and so immaterial.

The problems being set are generic - find out about a subject and report about it - and the subject matter is almost immaterial.

As a growing number of users choose to use online services only the location of the library service becomes immaterial to them.

But the mechanical view of nature is not identical with the materialistic. In the last of the above-mentioned works the question is discussed at great length how we have to consider mind, and the relation between mind and body; the answer is - we have to consider mind as an immaterial principle, its action, however, on the body and vice versa as purely mechanical, indicated by the fixed laws of a psycho-physical mechanism.

Haeckel's Riddle of the Universe maintains that " life may be something not only ultra-terrestrial, but even immaterial, something outside our present categories of matter and energy; as real as they are, but different, and utilizing them for its own purpose " (Life and Matter, 1906, p. 198).

David Hume, following up Berkeley's leading suggestion, pointed out that the inference to God is as precarious as the inference to matter, and that the assertion of a continuous or immaterial mind in man also goes beyond the immediate facts.

The order of the numbers in the bracket (p l p 2 ...p n) is immaterial; we may therefore always place them, as is most convenient, in descending order of magnitude; the numbers then constitute an ordered partition of the weight w, and the leading number denotes the degree.

The image and product of the motionless nous is the soul, which, according to Plotinus, is, like the nous, immaterial.

Many are the pet names, the poetic epithets bestowed upon it - the harbour of refuge, the cool cave, the island amidst the floods, the place of bliss, emancipation, liberation, safety, the supreme, the transcendent, the uncreated, the tranquil, the home of peace, the calm, the end of suffering, the medicine for all evil, the unshaken, the ambrosia, the immaterial, the imperishable, the abiding, the farther shore, the unending, the bliss of effort, the supreme joy, the ineffable, the detachment, the holy city, and many' others.

Whether or not you believe in mediumship and psychic abilities is immaterial; scientists want evidence, and TAPS uses as much of a scientific approach as they can to the emerging field of paranormal investigation.

Baptism is administered both to infants and adults by pouring or sprinkling, but the mode is considered immaterial.

The Rational Psychology formulates immortality on the ground that the immaterial soul has no parts to suffer decay - the argument which Kant's Critique of Pure Reason " refutes" with special reference to the statement of it by Moses Mendelssohn.

He regarded as essential a direct and immediate participation in the grace of the glorified Christ, and looked on religious ordinances as immaterial.

To enable the reader to compare the several groups of Nitzsch with the families of L'Herminier, the numbers applied by the latter to his families are suffixed in square brackets to the names of the former; and, disregarding the order of sequence, which is here immaterial, the essential correspondence of the two systems is worthy of all attention, for it obviously means that these two investigators, starting from different points, must have been on the right track, when they so often coincided as to the limits of what they considered to be, and what we are now almost justified in calling, natural groups.'

It should, however, be remembered that primitive peoples do not distinguish clearly between material and immaterial beings.

All movement in matter is, therefore, caused by some immaterial force, namely, God.

But the movements of the body are not analogous to the movements of matter; they are caused by a special immaterial force, the soul.

The soul, as being immaterial, is immortal, and its consciousness does not depend upon its connexion with the body.

Thus in the Moffett method it is immaterial whether metal or fume is produced, as in either case it is saved and the price is about the same.

In God, who is pure form without matter, the archetypes of material things exist as eternal immaterial forms. In this way Gilbert was at once Aristotelian and Platonist.

The principle of the meter is to make the breaking and driving action so strong that the friction of the train becomes immaterial in comparison.

The analysis of bodies into immaterial elements by Leibnitz incited Lotze.

According to Leibnitz, while each immaterial element is a monadic substance and self-acting secondary cause, God is the primary cause of all.

This has the advantage that it is completely specified by the axis of the rotation; the sense being immaterial.

The load is received upon four knife-edges, so that on the average each knife-edge receives only one-fourth of the load, and, as will be seen, it is immaterial whether the load is received equally by the four knife-edges or not, which is essential to the useful application of these machines.

It is immaterial whether the second marriage has taken place within England and Ireland or elsewhere, and the offence may be dealt with in any county or place where the defendant shall be apprehended or be in custody.

He states the various proofs for the existence of an immaterial, infinite, supreme Being, asserts that this Being is the author of the visible universe, and strongly defends the doctrine of the foreknowledge and particular providence of God.

At the same time he holds, in opposition to Epicureanism, the doctrine of an immaterial rational soul, endowed with immortality and capable of free determination.

It happens that the absolute magnitude of p" cannot be experimentally determined, but this is immaterial, as we are only concerned with differences.

Obviously the position of a normal eye free from accommodation is immaterial for determining the magnification.

For many purposes it is immaterial whether the image is inverted or upright; but in some cases an upright image lightens the work, or may be indispensable.

This prepared the way for the conception of God as an immaterial Spirit.

Nature is not trying to save anyone, because the fate of whatever she gives birth to is quite immaterial to her.

But more importantly, in contrast to numbers and geometrical shapes or intelligible laws, which are also immaterial, life is a living.

But since the spirits are not immaterial, they also feel pain (145 ).

Whether or not they tweaked the truth a bit here and there, seems immaterial.

Does the idea of an immaterial immortal soul make sense?

Naïve materialism is due to a cause which still, perhaps, has no small power, the natural difficulty which persons who have had no philosophic training experience in observing and appreciating the importance of the immaterial facts of consciousness.

This affects first of all the existence of angels, in regard to whom Aquinas admits that they are immaterial or separate forms (formae separatae).

Besides these works he wrote A Letter to Mr Dodwell, arguing that it is conceivable that the soul may be material, and, secondly, that if the soul be immaterial it does not follow, as Clarke had contended, that it is immortal; Vindication of the Divine Attributes (1710); Priestcraft in Perfection (1709), in which he asserts that the clause "the Church.