How To Use Immaterial In A Sentence

In the case of marriage, calling SSM discriminatory or segregationist represents either a failure to adequately recognise the sexuality of the individual involved or more perniciously to regard that distinction as immaterial or undeserving of respect. Why are only queer rights on the chopping block?
One step advanced beyond this, Jerry's uttermost, the folk of Somo, from the contemplation of death, had achieved concepts of the spirits of the dead still living in immaterial and supersensuous realms. Chapter 15
What had touched the world's hearts was the ethereal immaterialism of their secluded world and something primal in the music they sang.
The assumption that the benefits of Global Warmist policy are infinite and the costs immaterial is simply rubbish.
It would be sounded high that he debased human nature, which has a "cognation," so the reverend and learned Doctor Cudworth calls it, with the divine; that the soul of man, immaterial and immortal by its nature, was made to contemplate higher and nobler objects than this sensible world, and even than itself, since it was made to contemplate God and to be united to Him. Letters to Sir William Windham and Mr. Pope

The fact that their views may not reflect majority views, or indeed are specifically opposed to majority views, is immaterial.
In 1709 he issued An Essay towards a New Theory of Vision, followed in the next year by The Principles of Human Knowledge, the main exposition of his immaterialism.
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
Anthropological theories of virtualism, materiality/immateriality and digitisation. Culture Matters
She was the only person, in any case, that he had to say goodbye to -- the rest was immaterial, of no importance whatsoever. THE OPEN DOOR
While Newtonian matter-theory was depicted as a rival to Leibnizian immaterialism in the mid-18th century, in for example the Institutions de Physique of Mme du Chatelet, Newton was no ordinary corpuscularian or mechanical philosopher, and Kant did not have to contend with that now old-fashioned ontology. Kant and Leibniz
She has tried spiritually and harmoniously to convert him to immaterialism, but Sunny Slopes
This research shows that the immateriality of mind is a deep illusion. The Yogurt Made Me Do It
It seems to me to be wholly immaterial whether the failure to register was intentional or not.
Epicurus rejected the existence of Platonic forms and an immaterial soul, and he said that the gods have no influence on our lives.
Locke, as a moderate empiricist, accepted that there were both material and immaterial substances.
Furthermore, it is precisely the teaching of immaterialism, not materialism, which would raise the possibility of the Board being sued. Odds and Ends from Kansas - The Panda's Thumb
Corporation environment image refers to the impression on public resulting from its material surroundings and immaterial circumstance, and the appraisement and identification from the public.
Their plainly representational knotty, bark-covered surface contrasts with the immaterial, abstract shapes of the molding.
Account allowed the immaterial substance to have a nature over and above the kinds of state we would regard as mental.
University-oriented donation is essentially a kind of economic behavior, with immaterial utility of the donator and utility maximization.
Whether they found it on him, or when they searched his premises is immaterial. A WORM OF DOUBT
Moreover, though every intellectual act is accompanied by sensory motion, and especially by some sense representation (phantasma) evoked in the imagination, nevertheless sensation and sensuous representation (phantasma, image) differ essentially from the idea produced in and by the intellect, which is an immaterial, supersensuous and superorganic power or faculty. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy
The immateriality of the inserted structures is induced by height and length, and by being counterpoised against the massive masonry wall, its thickness displayed in the deep reveals of small square windows set high above the ground.
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
whether you choose to do it or not is a matter that is quite immaterial (or indifferent)
I was on a ‘no union’ contract for four years when I worked in a servo as an ‘unskilled’ immaterial labourer.
Nature was personified as an immaterial agency striving for ever more complex forms of being.
Never your intention to harm them, you hum immaterial music, half-recalled snatches underneath your breath.
Her thoughtful examination unearths binaries of mind/body and immaterial/material in even the most highly self-reflexive critical writing.
Therefore, while regrettable, the omission in my view is immaterial in these circumstances.
This may make any savings you anticipate by remortgaging immaterial in the long run.
The body is material but the soul is immaterial.
The first is that the Cartesian view completes the picture by being the extreme immaterialism that lies at the other end of the line from the extreme materialism that totally identifies mental with physical processes. The Angels and Us
Berkeley, although his professed aim was merely "to remove the mist and veil of words" which hindered the clear vision of the truth, passed from empirical immaterialism to a system of Platonic mysticism based on the metaphysical principle of causality. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman
Material signifiers gain aria-like ascendancy over immaterial meanings. Captivation and Liberty in Wordsworth's Poems on Music
In contrast, the auditor will be prepared to overlook immaterial errors in financial statements and in underlying records.
Whether does the labor of the domain create the argumentative long - standing of value about immaterial production.
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
Powers: first axiomatization of logic; knowledge of eternal, immaterial entities July 5th, 2007
Since the causes are immaterial, intellectual and eternal, so their created effects are essentially incorporeal, immaterial, intellectual, and eternal.
Wind direction also seems to be immaterial and both swimmers and non-swimmers are affected.
Something, which is immaterial, has no physical substance and hence does not exist.
Imagine, an almost god-like blue penis who can: increase in size split image multi-task read his past and future teleport to anywhere in the universe stay in non-air atmosphere create protective-shields move objects probe human minds immaterialize himself destroy matter shoot ligtning anti-gravity also smart and intelligent can neither lead nor satisfy his wife unable to stay faithful to his woman cannot solve the world's problem with his power unable to stop or at least delay the cold war never even try to do something cannot handle his own emotions well has nothing better to cry than his own wife's cancer / accusations dare not face the reporters and public then betrays to kill his good friend who sided with him and used to fight with him cannot choose between proper right and wrong almost becoming a wimp hiding away in another planet wasting time away when people asking him for help had to rely on pretending to be the world's bad guy saving the world in his own convenient way he definitely fails as a hero then again, we know the Cold War ended without any nukes fired so the so-called "general good of man-kind" of killing millions to save billions is to serve what purpose other than evil itself? ya you may tell me the story was written during the cold war so the ending was an imaginative end to it but then as an audience, a person of modern time, i feel it is outdated and unrealistic about its ending, same feeling as watching War of the Worlds where the super-intelligent aliens die of bacteria its just how i feel, well batman may suck and has no power, but at least he tried. Www.hardwarezone.com.sg
And Iâ€ ™ 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 insubstantialâ€ the realm of games and make-believe. Inkblurt · Dibbell on the game-reality shift
Far from immaterial, such a question is particularly relevant.
If you sign a document, it is wholly immaterial whether you have read it carefully or not.
Hence the delay required to obtain a warrant is usually immaterial.
Would you call Newtonian physics materialistic because it is based on measurable observations, even though it describes what are to our best understanding very immaterial forces? Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]
But though it be easy to defme the term blessed, when applied to the Deity, jet it is not so easy to form clear and just conceptions of the blessed - ness, or happiness of a being, who is all mind, or a pure immaterial spirit. Sermons on various important subjects of doctrine and practice
We find new relationships with technologies by rubbing our corporeal bodies up against them, not by crossing a threshold into their immaterial worlds.
In fact, it was the assignee of the legatee, but the difference is immaterial.
The songstress does not, however, dismiss her man's behavior as immaterial and, in fact, underlines both its personal and social impact.
Kagan spends the first about 10 sessions presenting an apologia (sort of) for the physicalist [5] view that the soul is "[something the body can do]" [1] rather than an immaterial entity intimately associated with the body (what is called the dualist view). By Common Consent, a Mormon Blog
Icon worship has different types of materiality and immateriality, of dominance and recessiveness, and of truthfulness and falsehood.
Perhaps the attendant dangers of living here are immaterial, given the hipness of the milieu. LOVE YOU MADLY
The fact he lost his way then is, to an extent, immaterial.
Whether the book is well or badly written is immaterial - it has an important message.
Whether they are right or not about their goal (and I think they were wrong) is immaterial.
Whether it was an individual, a community, a district, or a nation, that in this way acquired an exclusive right of ownership of the land, was immaterial: it was necessarily an _exclusive_ right, otherwise no one would put any labour into the land. Freeland A Social Anticipation
The immediate perception of sensuous or material objects by our senses is called sensuous or empirical intuition, the immediate apprehension of intellectual or immaterial objects by our intelligence is called intellectual intuition. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent
This research shows that the immateriality of mind is a deep illusion.
Even among people who believe in immaterial concepts like mind, there would be much disagreement over the cause of the concepts. Backing Into an Evidentiary Standard for ID
The difference between 59 and 52 vote majorities is largely immaterial, especially when the Senate is shedding people who often voted with the opposition. Matthew Yglesias » Evan Bayh to Retire
So you are embracing video's immateriality but also raising the need for materiality.
Secondarily, and in its logical (epistemological) usage, it designates the theory that all human knowledge is derived exclusively from experience, the latter term meaning, either explicitly or implicitly, external sense-percepts and internal representations and inferences exclusive of any superorganic (immaterial) intellectual factor. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy
In contrast to such extreme immaterialism, their view is that the action of the brain and nervous system is a necessary, but not a sufficient, condition for understanding and thinking. The Angels and Us
It is really immaterial how much we are promised about the good intentions of the new owners.
Perhaps the attendant dangers of living here are immaterial, given the hipness of the milieu. LOVE YOU MADLY
In 'Uti possidetis' the party in possession at the issue of the interdict was the winner, provided he had not obtained that possession from his adversary by force, or clandestinely, or by permission; whether he had obtained it from some one else in any of these modes was immaterial. The Institutes of Justinian
I don't want to comment on immaterialism or materialism but just want to emphasize the importance of spiritual recognition.
So the government says this is all irrelevant and immaterial.
Nonetheless, I do not think we can simply write off as immaterial or irrelevant the views expressed by my interlocutor.
The event, the fourth of its kind, is open to all: age, language, gender and sexual orientation are immaterial.
Does this mean that the Eternal-Uncreate chose, from foreknowledge of what Jeremiah would be, the created Ego of His immaterialized servant in heaven ere he clothed his soul with the mortal integument of flesh in human birth -- schooling him above for the part he had to play here below as a prophet to dramatize in his life and teaching the will of the Unseen? Mystic Christianity
I haven't checked to see if any part has been transposed down, but it's immaterial, because one can take a 10-minute rest, then ‘splice in’ the most strenuous phrase.
Ghosts and actors are not immaterial even though they may embody fictional scenarios; and conversely we might say that the world we live in, the world which is present to us, is peopled with phantoms.
I could have thrown my bootjack at him (it lay ready on the rug), for having entrapped me into the disclosure of anything concerning Agnes, however immaterial. David Copperfield
That is irrelevant and immaterial and none of your business, Miss Minton. LORD OF THE SILENT
‘The immateriality of electronic texts is unsettling, a turn-off.’
If you sign a document, it is wholly immaterial whether you have read it carefully or not.
The fact that the keeper got a touch as the shot flew past him into the corner of the net was immaterial, given the ferocity of the 23-year old's strike.
Whether they found it on him, or when they searched his premises is immaterial. A WORM OF DOUBT
Here is how the New York Times lets AIPAC immaterialize: David Bromwich: The AIPAC Case in Washington, Iraq, and Beyond
It is immaterial that they belong to urban or rural area.
There is no need to be disturbed in mind on hearing of the birth, human body, sufferings and death of the immaterial and unembodied Word of God.
He was simply trying to paint a picture of a possible or intelligible immaterial world.
Epicurus rejected the existence of Platonic forms and an immaterial soul, and he said that the gods have no influence on our lives.
The artist's touch is rendered as something palpable that intrudes on the immateriality of the photographic representation, to which the finger points - from inside the representation, as it were.
He loved to find subjects in men's souls - to rule over an invisible and immaterial empire!
But just how the material can mandate a fantasy about an immaterial world is always left unexplained; how could primitive mankind (and near-humans such as neanderthals) contextualize such ideas? Living in the Material World
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
But as he rightly pointed out, that fact was totally immaterial.
It is possible that Johnson was attempting to disprove immaterialism by the physicality of the stone and its action on his foot.
If, however, the slave belongs to the heir, who manumits him, Julian says that he is bound, and it is immaterial whether he knew or not that the slave had been bequeathed away from him. The Institutes of Justinian
immaterial apparitions
Whether or not it contained any sensitive security information was immaterial.
For someone to imagine the immaterial when neither they nor anyone else has ever experienced the immaterial is rather like trying to imagine a fifth dimension -- it is something so far out of our perception that conceiving of it seems nearly impossible. Living in the Material World
The condition of the car is quite immaterial as long as it works.
Perhaps the attendant dangers of living here are immaterial, given the hipness of the milieu. LOVE YOU MADLY
Meanwhile, Mr. Tondato said Autogrill has suffered minimal impact from the ongoing crisis in Japan following the recent earthquake and tsunami, with what he described as an "immaterial decrease" in boarding cards to and from Japan in recent days. Autogrill Expands Starbucks Contract
But the same method may lead, as in the case of Berkeley, to immaterialism, falsely called idealism. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 08, June 1858
Wins and losses, for any sport, are ultimately immaterial in considering the value of an athletic program.
If you sign a document, it is wholly immaterial whether you have read it carefully or not.
In the immaterial heaven every member is unchangeably itself for ever; in the heavens of our universe, while the whole has life eternally and so too all the nobler and lordlier components, the Souls pass from body to body entering into varied forms — and, when it may, a Soul will rise outside of the realm of birth and dwell with the one Soul of all. The Six Enneads.
The affinity between immaterialism and traditional religion is somewhat easier to understand.
To say that the human soul, angels, God, are immaterial is to say they are nothings, or that there is no God, no angels, no soul. Think Progress » ElBaradei, Smeared By Administration, Wins Nobel Peace Prize
Whether the public believed him was immaterial, though any public outcry in support of the union message could only be helpful.
Like Anima, Immaterial can be extremely demanding if the listener is intent on attending to each detail.
Since the “country of origin” labelling is based on the nationality of the fishing vessels that caught the fish and/or the location of the processing plant that bought them, where they were caught or where they swam from is completely and totally immaterial. Think Progress » Drilling Is Not The Solution To Create Jobs And Reduce Reliance On Foreign Oil
In particular, it seems to me quite an inconclusion to give to the spirits of the dead, or to any other existences, good or evil (unless, indeed, by possibility to ourselves as magnetically and sympathetically influenced by some metaphysical potencies whereof we know next to nothing), the seemingly miraculous powers exhibited, however weakly and childishly, in numberless seances, privileged to possess among the company an ecstatic medium between (as is assumed) themselves and beings immaterial. My Life as an Author
Descartes believes in a more or less natural form of interaction between immaterial mind and material body.
That the candidate also had significant executive branch experience and helped remake whole areas of the law was immaterial.
Which, if you please, we will hereafter call cogitative and incogitative beings; which to our present purpose, if for nothing else, are perhaps better terms than material and immaterial. An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
[NOTE TO SELF, FIND THIS: Sergio Bologna, "Problematiche del lavoro autonomo in Italia" (Part I), Altreragioni, no. 1 (1992), pp. 11-32; discussion of the term immaterial labor on 10-27.] What in the hell ...
an objection that is immaterial after the fact
In the midst of such simple-minded patriotism, the quality of the acting seems pretty immaterial.
a syncretism of material and immaterial theories
Even his shingle read: "Ladies 'Tailor: Abramka Stiftik" -- the most valid proof that he deemed his name immaterial, but that the chief thing to him was his art. Best Russian Short Stories
The body is material but the soul is immaterial.
A koan is a Zen riddle, the answer to which—if, in fact, there is an answer—is largely immaterial. Mother of the Unconventional
Whether as a matter of juridical theory such judicial abstinence is properly to be regarded as a matter of discretion or a matter of jurisdiction seems to me for present purposes immaterial.
There is less agreement on Berkeley's argumentative approach to idealism and immaterialism and on the role of some of his specific arguments.
Despite a promising start to the race for both cars, the succession of shunts soon took their toll on the machinery, rendering the result immaterial and survival the only goal.
Since, as you say, it's immaterial to the evidence she would introduce, why can't you tell us whether she is or isn't?
But whether it took place in time historically, geographically in this place we call the Garden of Eden, I think, is immaterial. NPR Topics: News
The content of the mathematics qualification to them is immaterial.
It is immaterial to me whether he stays or goes.
‘The paintings are constantly changing in different light conditions, effecting a fluctuation between materiality and immateriality,’ she adds.
Anyone can, for instance, glue styrofoam cups to a board and it is meaningless, craftless, and immaterial.
Even if immaterial souls do not exist, there is good reason not to identify the deaths of people with the deaths of their bodies.
She - the scholar - really wanted to believe that; whether or not it was true was almost immaterial.
It should also be noted that Skinner's derisive attitude towards explanatory references to mental innerness stems, in part, not just from fears of explanatory regression but from his conviction that if the language of psychology is permitted to refer to internal processing, this goes some way towards permitting talk of immaterial mental substances, agents endowed with contra-causal free will, and little persons (homunculi) within bodies. Behaviorism
Whether this is done by studying a programming language like C or PERL, or any of the many others, is immaterial.
What has been happening is a technological and social response that has sometimes been called dematerialization, or ephemeralization – a process in which information and other immaterial inputs are being substituted for many material inputs. Capital
I thought how ephemeral and immaterial the bond we have with anybody is, and for the most part we are alone to see and witness the world.
The condition of the car is quite immaterial as long as it works.
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
The second ten minutes of the bath should be devoted to faradization, employed in the same manner as the previous galvanization, only that here the direction of the current is immaterial, and no reversals are requisite. The Electric Bath
If you sign a document, it is wholly immaterial whether you have read it carefully or not.
The cells of the brain remain material and the phenomenon of consciousness remains immaterial and they are still as remote from one another and as "unfused" as if consciousness were outside of time and space altogether. The Complex Vision
No such immaterial burden could depress that buoyant - hearted young gentleman for many hours together.
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
Whether its Turkey seeking to facilitate this or Antigua is immaterial. The Volokh Conspiracy » Pollak on Uniquely Israeli Stupidity
In the later Prize Essay (1764), he would judge the Christian notion of immaterial souls as indemonstrable Kant's Philosophical Development
As immateriality culture legacy bashan folk song should be passed and developed in the new times.
Further in, James Turrell's latest baptism-by-light-installation, "The Ganzfield Piece" offers an immersive experience in immaterial color, pure perception and what might be called the fullness of emptiness. NYT > Global Home
You misconstrue the significance of McCaulife and the ultimate immateriality of what folks like Herbert write. McAuliffe Hosting Unity Event For Obama
In between these two extremes are the two moderate views that I have described as moderate materialism and moderate immaterialism. The Angels and Us
Whether the book is well or badly written is immaterial - it has an important message.
Ferrier, Fraser and Seth all deny that Berkeley's immaterialism amounts to mentalism, but it became common to distinguish between “subjective Idealism” and Ted
That is irrelevant and immaterial and none of your business, Miss Minton. LORD OF THE SILENT
For fear of saying such things, people in the past invented the notion of an immaterial soul, but Schopenhauer will have none of that.
Again: A dualist/interactionist believes that mental states are (at least sometimes) immaterial causes, so that we can have a change of mind without any associated change in our brain. Bunny and a Book
She was the only person, in any case, that he had to say goodbye to -- the rest was immaterial, of no importance whatsoever. THE OPEN DOOR
Every control and lead, every busbar and immaterial beam of force was traced and checked. Galactic Patrol
When we come to measure lengths, like a foot or yard or metre if you like; it is quite immaterial, if we had to start afresh from the beginning, what length we should take for our unit; we might take any length for the unit, provided we adhered to that unit. The British and the Metric Systems
the price was immaterial
The locality of the registration is immaterial - 90 per cent of people here drive badly or atrociously.
The figure, in dark pants and red blazer, is flecked with strokes of blue paint that match the deep background of the canvas, suggesting his immateriality and the imagined space of the composition.
Whether the display is at 2pm or 2am is immaterial to animals, most of whom are terrorised by the sudden and loud bangs.
Here the musical, immaterial harmony, resulting from a composition which might be called symphonic, was enhanced by a new harmony, which was the feeling of the circulation of the same blood in all the assembled persons. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman
ghosts and other immaterial entities
Once again matter has disappeared, this time giving way to the immateriality of communication, where everything is discourse and discourse is everything.
He's going to have an inconsistency, be it material or immaterial.
Her thoughtful examination unearths binaries of mind/body and immaterial/material in even the most highly self-reflexive critical writing.
She might seem, indeed, like himself, rather a "visitant" than an inhabitant of this planet, and their courtship not unlike one of his own stories of half immaterial lovers who go hand in hand, with sentiments for sentences and great heedlessness of mortal matters, to an idyllic union of hearts. Nathaniel Hawthorne
Because the amortization of organization costs usually is immaterial in dollar amount, th is convenient treatment is justified by the accounting principle of materiality.
Effectively, the insurer and reinsured have agreed that such information is immaterial.
He wondered what had "ailed" the Indian woman, that she should die so suddenly; but it was immaterial, since she 'Me--Smith'
In its occupations the island was as prosaic as Cape Cod, and lacked the far-reaching consciousness of the great world which is the possession of every populated sand-bar in the Western world; but it was enveloped in an atmosphere in which the edges of things were lost in a sense of their rootage in poetic relations, and of interrelations so elusive and immaterial that a delicate but persistent charm exhaled from them. Theocritus on Cape Cod
His reform of metaphysics suggests that he might be more appropriately described as a weak anti-realist rather than as an idealist, since his commitment to idealism is not a commitment to immaterialism, but to the claim that there is no epistemically unmediated access to reality. Robin George Collingwood
Therefore, the explanation of poltergeist cases is not, as the term poltergeist suggests, intelligent behavior by an immaterial being, a ghost.
The decad, or denarius, indicated comprehensively all being, material and immaterial, in the utmost perfection: hence the term _decas_, or _denarius_, was used summarily for the whole science of numbers, as in the title of Meursius's tract _De Notes and Queries, Number 77, April 19, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc

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