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Incorporeal
Incorporeal meaning
Having no material form or physical substance. | Relating to an asset that does not have a material form; such as a patent.
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Breaking with tradition and many thinkers after him, Descartes explicitly did not divide the incorporeal soul into parts, such as reason and intellect, describing them as one indivisible incorporeal entity.
An incorporeal phantom lite also ranks among the more potent pieces here.
Shiva is the incorporeal Supreme Soul who is the Father of all souls.
Cacklers are per se incorporeal undead that manifest to cackle – this ability is potent, in that it can affect 3d6 HD of creatures of equal to or less than 4HD, preventing them from acting.
According to a circular to shareholders published on Tuesday, the deal will make way for the sale of the company’s “corporeal and incorporeal” assets to Tian Li of Hong Kong while some assets have been tagged for sale to ZimCoke.
An article of property may have physical and incorporeal parts.
During his youth, he had dreamt in vain of encountering a woman who embodied such a feminine ideal: a platonic idea, perfect, untouchable, pure, incorporeal, evanescent, and illusory.
For example, Hobbes argued repeatedly that there are no incorporeal substances, and that all things, including human thoughts, and even God, heaven, and hell are corporeal, matter in motion.
He argued that "though Scripture acknowledge spirits, yet doth it nowhere say, that they are incorporeal, meaning thereby without dimensions and quantity".
If the word "soul" simply refers to an incorporeal component in living things that can continue after death, then Buddhism does not deny the existence of the soul.
Metaphysical idealism is an ontological doctrine that holds that reality itself is incorporeal or experiential at its core.
On the other hand, if they resided in the category of "soul" or "incorporeal thing", they "do not properly belong to physics" as a matter.
Sources of Indian Tradition, vol. 1, ed. Theodore de Bary (NY: Columbia UP, 1958), p. 94 Instead, Buddhism denies the existence of a permanent entity that remains constant behind the changing corporeal and incorporeal components of a living being.
The belief that some spiritual or incorporeal component ( soul ) exists and that it is preserved after death is described by the term " afterlife ".
The Church Fathers have referred to fasting without prayer as "the fast of the demons" since the demons do not eat according to their incorporeal nature, but neither do they pray.
Theological and dogmatic Origen's conception of God the Father is apophatic—a perfect unity, invisible and incorporeal, transcending all things material, and therefore inconceivable and incomprehensible.
These Martians are incorporeal, telepathic beings, peaceful yet curious about humanity.
The soul was considered the incorporeal or spiritual "breath" that animates (from the Latin, anima, cf. "animal") the living organism.
The true human is an incorporeal contemplative capacity of the soul, and superior to all things corporeal.
Walpola Rahula, What the Buddha Taught (NY: Grove, 1962), p. 26 When the body dies, Buddhists believe the incorporeal mental processes continue and are reborn in a new body.