19 examples of immateriality in sentences

[And therefore it is not of such mighty necessity to determine one way or the other, as some, over-zealous for or against the immateriality of the soul, have been forward to make the world believe.

"But," says he, "the poet should have secured the consistency of his system by keeping immateriality out of sight, and seducing the reader to drop it from his thoughts."

This is easily said; but what if Milton could not seduce his readers to drop immateriality from their thoughts?

Immateriality N. immateriality, immaterialness; incorporeity^, spirituality; inextension^; astral plane.

Immateriality N. immateriality, immaterialness; incorporeity^, spirituality; inextension^; astral plane.

[Med.]. ideality, idealism; transcendentalism, spiritualism; immateriality &c 317; universal concept, universal conception.

Unimportance N. unimportance, insignificance, nothingness, immateriality.

" "Some," answered Imlac, "have, indeed, said, that the soul is material, but I can scarcely believe that any man has thought it, who knew how to think; for all the conclusions of reason enforce the immateriality of mind, and all the notices of sense and investigations of science concur to prove the unconsciousness of matter.

Does that immateriality, which, in my opinion, you have sufficiently proved, necessarily include eternal duration?

" "Of immateriality," said Imlac, "our ideas are negative, and, therefore, obscure.

Immateriality seems to imply a natural power of perpetual duration, as a consequence of exemption from all causes of decay: whatever perishes is destroyed by the solution of its contexture, and separation of its parts; nor can we conceive how that which has no parts, and, therefore, admits no solution, can be naturally corrupted or impaired.

Thus robbed of its substantiality, the soul has no further claims to immateriality and immortality, and suicide ceases to be a crime.

The freedom of my thought and action guarantees to me the immateriality of my soul, and is that which distinguishes me from the brute.

The rational psychology of the Wolffian school is guilty of this error, and whatever of proof it advances for the substantiality, simplicity, and personality of the soul, and, by way of deduction, for its immateriality and immortality as well as for its relation to the body, is based upon this substitution, this ambiguity of the middle term, and therefore upon a quaternio terminorum,all its conclusions are fallacious.

Now, no matter how consistently dogmatism may proceed (and when it does so it becomes, like the system of Spinoza, materialism and fatalism or determinism, maintaining that all is nature, and all goes on mechanically; treats the spirit as a thing among others, and denies its metaphysical and moral independence, its immateriality and freedom), it may be shown to be false, because it starts from a false principle.

I considered those several Proofs, drawn; First, From the Nature of the Soul it self, and particularly its Immateriality; which, tho' not absolutely necessary to the Eternity of its Duration, has, I think, been evinced to almost a Demonstration.

'Spirit' is a misleading word, for, historically, it connotes immateriality and a supernatural kind of existence, and the Theosophist believes neither in the one nor the other.

In his Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous (1713) he sets forth his famous demonstration of the immateriality of the external world, of the spiritual nature of the soul, and of the all-ruling and direct providence of God.

His tenets on immateriality have always been rejected by "common-sense" philosophers; but it should be remembered that the whole work was written at a time when the English-speaking world was disturbed by the theories of sceptics and deists, whose doctrines the pious divine sought as best he could to confute.

19 examples of  immateriality  in sentences