However, ghosts, when multiplied, take on what is called substantiality -- if the solidest thing conceivable, in quasi-existence, is only concentrated phantomosity. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of the Damned] Reference
Gatsby had filled out to the substantiality of a man. From Wordnik.com. [The Great Gatsby] Reference
"What is the substantiality?" it inquired in the human idiom. From Wordnik.com. [Up In A Heaval]
Hoping to develope/envelope some more substantiality eventually. From Wordnik.com. [The Big Fat Carnival - First Edition!] Reference
Looking down, Hardy saw that his own substantiality had been restored. From Wordnik.com. ["Master Control" by Harl Vincent, part 3] Reference
The altar, like the ambo is now given greater substantiality and gravitas. From Wordnik.com. [Renovations: St. Mary Church, Marietta, Ohio] Reference
Our kirk to-day is a building of substantiality and even grace; then it was. From Wordnik.com. [John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn] Reference
Still not all things that are prior in definition are also prior in substantiality. From Wordnik.com. [Metaphysics] Reference
This denial of substantiality to bodies gives rise to an important interpretive issue. From Wordnik.com. [Spinoza's Physical Theory] Reference
After Aristotle, the distinguishing mark of real things has been their substantiality. From Wordnik.com. [Philocrites: The reality of the symbol of God.] Reference
These decorations have the same quality of substantiality and thorough good workmanship. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 42, April, 1861] Reference
Saxon race do not despoil him of his spoils, the Japanese dream takes on substantiality. From Wordnik.com. [The Yellow Peril] Reference
They have no substantiality, but move like veiled figures through the most exciting adventures. From Wordnik.com. [Short Stories for English Courses] Reference
One thing we are sure of, and that is the reality and substantiality of the luminiferous ether. From Wordnik.com. [Euclid’s Window] Reference
He put out his hand to test its substantiality, and the voice cried in a keen pitch of terror. From Wordnik.com. [Master of His Fate] Reference
Its inability to admit concrete particulars derived from the substantiality of the system itself. From Wordnik.com. [Bruno Bauer] Reference
"Existing" also connotes consequential, meaningful, and specific qualities, but adds substantiality. From Wordnik.com. [Philocrites: The reality of the symbol of God.] Reference
This is one of the things that gives "The Terror" such appeal and a particular feeling of substantiality. From Wordnik.com. [Dan Simmons - The Terror (Book Review)] Reference
I prefer them a little thicker so they have some bite and substantiality along with whats wrapped inside. From Wordnik.com. [Ratio] Reference
The difference in substantiality between a hologram and reality has to do with the energy feed and the receiver. From Wordnik.com. [Reality, an Enormous Interference Pattern?] Reference
"One thing we are sure of," he commented, "and that is the reality and substantiality of the luminiferous ether.". From Wordnik.com. [Two Older Articles by Alan B Wallace] Reference
When I refer to "existence," I mean to imply reality with substantiality, or what Kant calls the "phenomenal world.". From Wordnik.com. [Philocrites: The reality of the symbol of God.] Reference
This undermines any linguistic assumption of the substantiality of things and hence any delusory attachments to them. From Wordnik.com. [Laughter] Reference
Here's what the Henley court said about the "amount and substantiality of the portion used" factor in the "fair use" analysis. From Wordnik.com. [MA GOP's lame ad and James Taylor's copyright: upon further analysis, it's still not "fair use"] Reference
I noticed the Cat, whose games with substantiality somehow at this point made it seem more real than anything else in the place. From Wordnik.com. [Sign of Chaos]
One thereby also gains the visual substantiality it accords the altar, while further gaining the benefit of a fully vested altar. From Wordnik.com. [Another Altar "Metamorphosis" and Some Suggestions] Reference
In addition to this, there was another reason, which was quite sufficient in itself to account for the extra substantiality of the dam. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 595, May 28, 1887] Reference
They have no objection to the word substance so long as it is the sign of something substantial; for substantiality implies materiality. From Wordnik.com. [An Apology for Atheism Addressed to Religious Investigators of Every Denomination by One of Its Apostles] Reference
Nonetheless, Aristotle's equating an increase in generality with a decrease in substantiality is at least in spirit strongly anti-Platonic. From Wordnik.com. [Aristotle's Categories] Reference
To all such potency, then, actuality is prior both in formula and in substantiality; and in time it is prior in one sense, and in another not. From Wordnik.com. [Metaphysics] Reference
Divine substantiality is analyzed to the point of showing its eternally necessary reality and unique predication of God-or-nature as a totality. From Wordnik.com. [IDEA OF GOD, 1400-1800] Reference
It is dependent on the Agent Intellect entirely, with only the soul's independent substantiality separating it from being totally absorbed in it. From Wordnik.com. [Arabic and Islamic Psychology and Philosophy of Mind] Reference
Under any hypothesis the Universe in its outer aspect is changing, ever-flowing, and transitory -- and therefore devoid of substantiality and reality. From Wordnik.com. [The Kybalion A Study of The Hermetic Philosophy of Ancient Egypt and Greece] Reference
Every phenomenon of the cosmos, being empty of substantiality, is what it is through its interdependent origination (Skrt: pratītya-samutpâda; Jpn: engi). From Wordnik.com. [Laughter] Reference
This is what Goethe meant when he said that substantiality was the category of the epic, causality of the drama, although, of course, this distinction is not absolute. From Wordnik.com. [The Principles of Aesthetics] Reference
I did this, as his form continued to grow in substantiality, looking more and more regal the while, a strange sadness on his face, of a sort I had never seen there before. From Wordnik.com. [The Courts of Chaos]
The interrelationship amongst the elements signifies their non-substantiality, i.e. the fact that they are not ontologically independent, and in Buddhist parlance this means. From Wordnik.com. [Laughter] Reference
A classic example of such an attempt is provided by Descartes, who deduced the substantiality of the self from the proposition (or, perhaps better, the activity) “I think.”. From Wordnik.com. [Kant's Critique of Metaphysics] Reference
The answer revolves around perceiving the lack of substantiality in all things, concepts or notions and not being attached to these things. From Wordnik.com. [Open Buddha] Reference
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