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While some people are more sensitive to caffeine's effects, ill and otherwise, than others, the substance's role in human health has yet to be fully sorted out.

Keeping caffeine from kids Jennifer LaRue Huget 2010

Introducing another harmful legal intoxicant flies in the face of what we should have already learned with cigarettes and alcohol: Legalization increases a substance's availability and opens up a new, above-ground market, including advertising that targets young people and potential new users.

Deni Carise: Prop 19 Rejected: California Doesn't Judge a Book By Its Cover Deni Carise 2010

Introducing another harmful legal intoxicant flies in the face of what we should have already learned with cigarettes and alcohol: Legalization increases a substance's availability and opens up a new, above-ground market, including advertising that targets young people and potential new users.

Deni Carise: Prop 19 Rejected: California Doesn't Judge a Book By Its Cover Deni Carise 2010

Instead of knowing the necessary connections holding between a substance's real essence and its other qualities, including its tertiary qualities (which might include, recall, causal connections with substances beyond the remotest star), we know only the co-existences of properties.

Locke's Philosophy of Science Kochiras, Hylarie 2009

This passage can be read to mean that speaking of a substance's representation acting (as an efficient cause?) is only a loose way of speaking; strictly speaking, it is the substance, or better, power of the substance, that acts in accordance with this representation (functioning as a final cause?).

Leibniz on Causation Bobro, Marc 2009

But then The New York Times reported just the opposite: Sales of Botox fell about 3 percent to about $329 million in the fourth quarter of 2008, compared with the fourth quarter in 2007, said Allergan, the substance's manufactuer.

Everybody Freeze! Just in Time for Fashion Week, Botox on Sale in TriBeCa 2009

What about all those anti-sugar kooks -- do they have a point about that substance's addictiveness?

Stanton Peele: What Is Addiction? 2009

Further, and of particular interest here, Locke often appears to identify a material substance's real essence with the set or some subset of its component particles 'primary qualities.

Locke's Philosophy of Science Kochiras, Hylarie 2009

But then The New York Times reported just the opposite: Sales of Botox fell about 3 percent to about $329 million in the fourth quarter of 2008, compared with the fourth quarter in 2007, said Allergan, the substance's manufactuer.

Everybody Freeze! Just in Time for Fashion Week, Botox on Sale in TriBeCa 2009

If we take the concept of substance as being in itself, we cannot come to know a particular substance's definition without the concept of being presupposed in the background, and in addition we are concomitantly aware of the transcendental properties of being (unity, truth, and goodness) in any such notion.

Amputee 2009