immateriality

In another place he says, "We must necessarily conclude from this alone, that because I exist, and have the idea of immateriality, that is to say, of a most perfect being, the existence is therefore most evidently demonstrated."

The System of Nature, Volume 2 Paul Henri Thiry Holbach 1756

Otherwise Ministers stand the risk of having their decision quashed by the courts on a number od potential grounds, such as immateriality or irrationality.

Odyssey’s Never Ending Quest for Treasure 2009

The human soul is no exception - its "immateriality" is not absolute, but only relative, in the sense that in it the region of clear representation is so much greater than the region of obscure representation that the latter is practically a negligible quantity.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy 1840-1916 1913

For ought we know, the principle of life, sensation, memory, and volition _may_ belong to an immaterial substance even in the lower animals, who are not supposed to be immortal; and the only use which we would make of its "immateriality" in connection with its

Modern Atheism under its forms of Pantheism, Materialism, Secularism, Development, and Natural Laws James Buchanan 1837

This is the age of post-postmodernism -- an age of both inoperative language and linguistic reflexivity, of "meaning" as both immaterial material and material immateriality -- and Douglas Kearney pushes hard against all of this by rendering language as active, operative, and indeed a locus for Spectacle.

Seth Abramson: November 2011 Contemporary Poetry Reviews Seth Abramson 2011

This research shows that the immateriality of mind is a deep illusion.

The Yogurt Made Me Do It Jonah Lehrer 2011

His observations would not have the poignancy they do, there would not be the tragedy or pathos he leaves as a ghost after his poem if the assumptions of materialism were not juxtaposed with his intuitions of immateriality.

The Poet Thomas Hardy « Unknowing 2010

This is the age of post-postmodernism -- an age of both inoperative language and linguistic reflexivity, of "meaning" as both immaterial material and material immateriality -- and Douglas Kearney pushes hard against all of this by rendering language as active, operative, and indeed a locus for Spectacle.

Seth Abramson: November 2011 Contemporary Poetry Reviews Seth Abramson 2011

You misconstrue the significance of McCaulife and the ultimate immateriality of what folks like Herbert write.

McAuliffe Hosting Unity Event For Obama 2009

And I†™ m arguing, finally, that that relationship is one of convergence; that in the strange new world of immateriality toward which the engines of production have long been driving us, we can now at last make out the contours of a more familiar realm of the insubstantial†the realm of games and make-believe.

inkblurt · Dibbell on the game-reality shift 2007