Presubstantial

Quick meaning: Presubstantial is an adjective meaning (philosophy) Having no physical substance, but having the potential to become substantial.

Meaning

(philosophy) Having no physical substance, but having the potential to become substantial.

Example Sentences

Hegel is a materialist rather than an idealist insofar as he represents subjectivity as an irreducible “crack” in the cosmos rather than as a presubstantial ground from which substance itself would proceed.

By way of explanation, Narbonne suggests that Plotinus accepts the Aristotelian notions of actuality and potentiality used to explain change in substance, but also elaborates a new, presubstantial notion of potentiality.

Damascius's elucidation of the presubstantial matrix of the subtle body served his larger project of fusing the theoretical and theurgical trajectories of the Neoplatonic tradition, which in his view were complementary methods on equal footing: […]

Faith, which has but one definition, the realization of the invisible, begins by realizing the invisible past, the prehistoric, the pre-Adamite, the prematerial presubstantial past, and understands that it was by a fiat of the Self-Existent that it was made to be.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include substantial, substantive, intendable, virtual, existible, substantiatable.

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