Checking saved dictionary data and trusted language sources. This will stop automatically if a source does not respond.
Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective
(philosophy) Having no physical substance, but having the potential to become substantial..
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.
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.
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.
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: […]
Use presubstantial when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Presubstantial means (philosophy) Having no physical substance, but having the potential to become substantial..
The closest synonym depends on the sentence and intended sense.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
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.
FreeDictionaryAPI.com / Wiktionary · Original source · CC BY-SA 4.0
Dictionary data is provided by FreeDictionaryAPI.com and sourced from Wiktionary under its stated license.