immaterial substance

collocation in English

meaningsofimmaterialandsubstance

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immaterial
adjective
uk
/ˌɪm.əˈtɪə.ri.əl/us
/ˌɪm.əˈtɪr.i.əl/
not important, or not relating to the subject you are ...
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substance
noun
uk
/ˈsʌb.stəns/us
/ˈsʌb.stəns/
material with particular ...
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(Definition ofimmaterialandsubstancefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Mental states are attached to the brain instead of being modes (inseparable parts) of animmaterialsubstance.
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When one's body dies, the person continues to exist as a disembodied,immaterialsubstance.
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And if there is noimmaterialsubstance, then his self-identification has failed.
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Even if we grant that animmaterialsubstancewith the relevant features could emerge from matter fitly disposed, the emerging substance would not itself be physical.
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Williams presents a second thought experiment intended to show the possibility of animmaterialsubstancethat does not think.
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But what is ontologically distinctive about being a person - namely, a first-person perspective - does not have to be secured by animmaterialsubstancelike a soul.
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These faculties enable consciousness, perception, thinking, judgement, and memory are considered to consist of animmaterialsubstance, separate from and independent of the body.
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If there are no material substances, then it must be animmaterialsubstance.
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This is true for both material and immaterial substances.
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Philosophers, in fact, have actually conceived of various immaterial substances that cannot think - possible worlds, objectively existing values, and numbers, to name a few.
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Materialists can admit that dualists are right to claim that souls are not generic immaterial substances to which thinking is added, but are essentially thinking entities.
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