You admit nevertheless that there is spiritual Substance, although you have no idea of it; while you deny there can be such a thing as material Substance, because you have no notion or idea of it.
Farther, I know what I mean when I affirm that there is a spiritual substance or support of ideas, that is, that a spirit knows and perceives ideas.
Hence a spiritual substance must be composite, for it must have something by which it differs from a corporeal substance, and something, viz.
The same thing applies to the statement that a spiritual substance is distinguished from a corporeal in its capacity of receiving its qualities or accidents without limits.
The true opinion, which is that of the Bible and the true philosophers, is that the soul is a spiritual substance independent of the body; that it existed before the body and will continue to exist after the dissolution of the latter.
The existence of a spiritual substance is proved from the presence of such qualities as knowledge and ignorance.
What I am myself, that which I denote by the term I, is the same with what is meant by soul, or spiritual substance.
And, as there is no more meaning in spiritual Substance than in material Substance, the one is to be exploded as well as the other.
So some supposed man's soul to be part of that one soul, as man is a part of the whole world; for they were unable to go so far as to understand the different degrees of spiritual substance, except according to the distinction of bodies.
Helvetius, however, unlike La Mettrie, does not clearly decide that sensation is but a result of bodily conditions, and he admits that sensation may be a modification of a spiritual substance.
Helvetius explicitly states that it is an open question whether sensation is due to a material or to a spiritual substance.
It was a natural consequence of La Mettrie's disbelief in spiritual substance that he could throw doubt on the existence of God.
I am compelled to reject this idea, because I think the expression spiritual substance has no meaning; nothing but the sonorous value of six syllables.
Another opinion consists in making of the subject a spiritual substance, of which the consciousness becomes a faculty.
Certain philosophers have asserted that through intuition we can all establish that we are a spiritual substance.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "spiritual substance" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
