immaterial substance
1immaterial substance — index spirit Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …
2immaterial — im·ma·te·ri·al /ˌi mə tir ē əl/ adj: not essential, pertinent, or of consequence the jury could have discounted the medical history evidence, or while accepting its accuracy, found it immaterial Willett v. State, 911 S.W.2d 937 (1995) compare… …
3immaterial — adjective /ˌɪməˈtɪriəl/ a) Having no matter or substance. Because ghosts are immaterial, they can pass through walls. b) Irrelevant. Objection, Your Honour! The defendants criminal record is immaterial to this case. Ant: material …
4immaterial — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. unsubstantial, incorporeal, disembodied; impalpable, intangible; irrelevant, impertinent; trivial, unimportant, inconsequential. See insubstantiality, unimportance. II (Roget s IV) modif. 1.… …
5without substance — index ill founded, immaterial, incorporeal, null (insignificant), unfounded Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …
6Dualism (philosophy of mind) — René Descartes s illustration of dualism. Inputs are passed on by the sensory organs to the epiphysis in the brain and from there to the immaterial spirit. In philosophy of mind, dualism is a set of views about the relationship between mind and… …
7Leibniz: truth, knowledge and metaphysics — Nicholas Jolley Leibniz is in important respects the exception among the great philosophers of the seventeenth century. The major thinkers of the period characteristically proclaim the need to reject the philosophical tradition; in their… …
8Averroes — Alfred Ivry Abū’l Walīd Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Rushd (1126–98) needs to be known only as Averroes to be familiar to students of philosophy in the West. Greatly respected as a commentator on Aristotle’s writings, Averroes was also strongly… …
9Enlightenment (The Scottish) — The Scottish Enlightenment M.A.Stewart INTRODUCTION The term ‘Scottish Enlightenment’ is used to characterize a hundred years of intellectual and cultural endeavour that started around the second decade of the eighteenth century. Our knowledge of …
10Materialism — • As the word itself signifies, Materialism is a philosophical system which regards matter as the only reality in the world, which undertakes to explain every event in the universe as resulting from the conditions and activity of matter, and… …
