Corporeal

/kɔːɹˈpɔːɹiəl/ · adjective

Meaning

Material; tangible; physical..

Definitions by Sense

1. Material; tangible; physical.
2. (archaic) Pertaining to the body; bodily; corporal.

Example Sentences

His omnipotence That to corporeal substance could add Speed almost spiritual.

She is always diagnosing me. My corporeal health is of almost as much interest to her as my spiritual health: she is especially proprietary about my bowels.

Sometimes the attempt was made to reduce the inner to the outer world (Condillac, Mach, Avenarius, materialism); sometimes the outer to the inner world (Descartes, Berkeley, Fichte); sometimes the sphere of the absolute to the others (e.g., by trying to infer causally the essence and existence of something divine in general); sometimes the vital world to the pregivenness of the dead corporeal world (as in the empathy theory of life, espoused, among others, by Descartes and Theodor Lipps); sometimes the assumption of a co-world to a pregivenness of the own inner world of the assuming subject combined with that of an outer corporeal world (theories of analogy to and empathy with the consciousness of others);

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• more corporeal
• most corporeal

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