Meanings of simple substance in English

It is always the act of a simple substance, never of a compound.

We are assured, that the human soul is a simple substance.

Until within sixty years, the world thought that petroleum was one simple substance.

Such not being the fact, the conclusion results that the soul is one, a simple substance.10

The proposition is that the object of the internal sense, the thinking Ego, is an absolute simple substance.

No composite thing in the world consists of simple parts; and there does not exist in the world any simple substance.

The dogma of the immortality of the soul supposes the soul to be a simple substance; in a word, a spirit.

But this is not tantamount to declaring that the thinking Ego is a simple substance-forthis would be a synthetical proposition.

I mention this subject of the differentiation of the ether merely that you may not suppose that the ether is a simple substance.

For the present we will treat it as a simple substance, but next year we will take it up as a compound one.

The principal point developed by Leibniz is the richness of content which, according to him, is to be found in each ' simple substance'.

But it is intelligible and consistent to say, that objects exist distinct and independent, without any common simple substance or subject of inhesion.

Oxygen is, therefore, an element or simple substance diffused generally through nature, and its different combinations are essential to animal life and combustion.

For simple substances, or mixtures of only two substances, a determination of sp.

Such is the uniformity of the action of simple substances.

And "in simple substances there is nothing but perceptions and their changes."