The Materialistic school holds that Force is a property of Matter, the latter being regarded as the "real thing" of the Universe.
Others hold that Force is the "real thing" and Matter but a form of Force.
We mistake the true meaning of this idea when we regard it as an enouncement, or even as a hypothetical declaration of the existence of a real thing, which we are to regard as the origin or ground of a systematic constitution of the universe.
But we cannot affirm the converse, that space, as something self-subsistent, can determine real things in regard to size or shape, for it is in itself not a real thing.
To call a phenomenon a real thing prior to perception means either that we must meet with this phenomenon in the progress of experience, or it means nothing at all.
However vague the ideas an isolated being would form of objects distinct from itself, they will never be so vague as not to refer to a real thing.
Supposing there to be such a representation, science is not occupied with a pure nothing, but with a real thing; and it has consequently in view a positive object, even when it abstracts the reality of the thing considered.
This capacity is not a real thing existing in the objects; it is but a name for our conviction that they will act in a particular manner when certain new circumstances arise.
We might as well say that a force of millions of pounds exists in a pound, as that the force which will manifest itself when the coal is burned is a real thing existing in the coal.
Air is a real thing, James, and it keeps the parachute back a great deal.
The air is a real thing, I verily believe," said Nathan.
So Rollo ran off after the umbrella, very much interested in proving to James, by actual experiment, that the air was a real thing.
The reality of an idea in us is different from the idea of a real thing, or from the reality of that which is perceived without us by means of the idea, and it is just this last meaning which common sense affirms and Berkeley denies.
To call a phenomenon a real thing antecedent to perception, means .
But his free will, though a real thing, acts in a narrower circle and with more numerous limitations than he usually imagines.
Can a real thing, in itself invisible, be like a colour; or a real thing, which is not audible, be like a sound?
I answer, those words do mean or signify a real thing; which is neither an idea nor like an idea, but that which perceives ideas, and wills, and reasons about them.
And it is obvious that an unreal thing cannot be larger than a real thing; nor can an unreal thing be a whole of which a real thing is a part.
The objective mystery is therefore no real thingat all, but only the potentiality of all real things, before the "real thing" which is our individual soul comes upon the scene to create the universe.
That space is a real thingfollows in the first place from certain scriptural passages, such as 'space sprang from the Self.
Anything with regard to which that distinction holds good we conclude to be a real thing, such as jars and the like are, not a mere undefinable negation.
How little we dreamed at the time of the mobilisation that we were so near to the “real thing”!
A real thing it undoubtedly was: a visible effect did follow in most cases--some ten, or twenty or thirty watery pimples on the skin.
In like manner Nettleton, in Yorkshire, who took pains to make his smallpox a real thing, and succeeded in doing so as well as any inoculator ever did succeed, was persuaded that inoculated smallpox counted for a natural attack.
The mere obstruction of activity is not a real thing, hence the unreal character of Sensation.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "real thing" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
