| 单词 | material thing |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmaterial thing material thing n. = material object n. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > materialism > [noun] > objectivism > elements of material thing1583 material objectness1932 1583 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Serm. on Deuteronomie clxxxii. 1130/1 They [sc. Papists] make men beleeue that the breade is no more a materiall thing. 1605 F. Bacon Of Aduancem. Learning i. sig. B2v View and enquiry into these sensible and material things . View more context for this quotation 1649 tr. R. Descartes Disc. Method 59 Imagination..is a particular manner of thinking on materiall things. 1733 A. Baxter Enq. Nature Human Soul 277 He supposes that from the surfaces of all material things there are continually flying off thin membranes. 1899 W. James Talks to Teachers vii. 58 The result of all this is that intimate familiarity with the physical environment, that acquaintance with the properties of material things, which is really the foundation of human consciousness. 2000 Newsweek 1 Jan. 68/3 A..nuclear missile is a merely material thing: its fuel goes bad, its space-age gyroscopes are hopelessly old-fashioned. < as lemmas |
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