This he did by comparing the behaviour of the electrical force to the currents of an elastic fluid - that is, of a material substance.
Wherever, as a result of the action of gravity, such a function congeals materially, there we meet it in the form of a physical-material substance.
No material substance can be produced or destroyed by natural causes, though its form and consistence may be changed indefinitely.
The difficulty, upon analysis, is seen to consist of the inability to conceive of "thought" as being a material substance capable of traveling in "waves.
So that when I consider the two parts or branches which make the signification of the words material substance, I am convinced there is no distinct meaning annexed to them.
When I consider the two parts or branches which make up the words material substance, I am convinced there is no distinct meaning annexed to them" (sect.
Hence, the metaphysician is bound to explain how things material differ from things immaterial, and has to ascertain what metaphysical predicates are attributable to material substance on account of its very materiality.
Matter and form are the essential constituents of material substance, as all metaphysicians admit; it is, therefore, impossible to understand the essence of material substance, unless the intellect reaches the matter as well as the form.
Act and potency, in material things, are called form and matter respectively; hence, material substance is said to consist essentially of matter and form.
The heat is set free by the change of condition in material substance, precisely as power is procured.
This is an instance of the way in which chemists produce motion, by changing the state and condition of material substance.
In simple words, material substance is destroyed in order that power may be extracted from it.
Thus our knowledge of the internal constitution of material substance, through the medium of its external qualities, is in the highest degree uncertain, variable, and often erroneous.
You were represented, in last night's conversation, as one who maintained the most extravagant opinion that ever entered into the mind of man, to wit, that there is no such thing as material substance in the world.
His refutation of material substance is intended as a full acceptance of the implications of the new empirical epistemology.
May there not be such a thing as a spiritual as well as a material substance?
No; but mental shadows do not always indicate the proximity of material substance.
A little attention will discover to any one the truth and evidence of what is here said, and make it unnecessary to insist on any other proofs against the existence of material substance.
I must therefore be a substance; but it has been shown that there is no corporeal or material substance: it remains therefore that the CAUSE OF IDEAS is an incorporeal active substance or Spirit.
What shall we say then of your external object; is it a material Substance, or no?
How then can a great heat exist in it, since you own it cannot in a material substance?
Is it your opinion the very figure and extension which you perceive by sense exist in the outward object or material substance?
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "material substance" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
