Now, is it not obvious that there must be some generic idea which classifies all the different meanings and applications of this term, and which has its foundation in the common sense, the common reason of all mankind?
Webster gives correctly some forty different meanings of this term, together with several subordinate senses in which it occurs, all of which are in common use.
An account of an individual kept in a dungeon from early childhood, to about the age of seventeen.
The first words, we may suppose, were onomatopoetic, that is to say, vocal imitations of the objects to which they referred.
Now we can only assign to them the humble rank of mere descriptions, often erroneous, of similarities which we believe we have observed.
The fundamental weakness of most of the attempts hitherto made to analyze existing cultures is that they have had their starting-point in the study of material objects, and the reason for this is obvious.
True, our transactions have reference frequently to material objects; but what does that prove?
As Adam Smith made value to reside in matter, he could not conceive Capital as existing otherwise than in an accumulation of material objects.
But we do not experiment on ideal straights or circles; it can only be done on material objects.
After all, have we any other reason to believe in the existence of material objects?
Mathematics is independent of the existence of material objects; in mathematics the word exist can have only one meaning, it means free from contradiction.
Lipps and others who follow him seek to show that this vitalizing activity of the fancy, which produces a new and illusory object, is the essential ingredient in the aesthetic enjoyment of the forms of material objects.
Clearer upon this question of perception is the position of Berkeley; we may therefore take him as a fair representative of those critics who seek to invalidate the discovery of material objects.
His objection to material objects, therefore, could not consistently be that they are objects of knowledge rather than absolute feelings, exhausted by their momentary possession in consciousness.
The child soon discontinues its efforts to thrust an arm through a glass window; and every day learns some new lesson in the properties of material objects.
To invest wich material characteristics; to make perceptible to the senses; hence, to present to the mind through the medium of material objects.
Sense is the mind's acting in the direct cognition either of material objects or of its own mental states.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "material objects" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
