matter.

All matter that is the outcome of experience, in other words everything that is founded on fact, whether it be historical or physical, taken by itself and in its widest sense, is included in the term matter.

Essays of Schopenhauer 2004

Aether belongs to that group of things which we describe by the term matter.

Aether and Gravitation William George Hooper

For the idea of Berkeley, and the image of Bergson, I substitute the term matter.

The Mind and the Brain Being the Authorised Translation of L'Âme et le Corps Alfred Binet 1884

There is no escape from this dilemma, -- either all matter is conscious, or consciousness is something distinct from matter, and in the latter case, its presence in material forms is a proof of the existence of conscious beings, outside of, and independent of, what we term matter.

Contributions to the Theory of Natural Selection A Series of Essays Alfred Russel Wallace 1868

It exhibits the universe, as a universe of intelligence and will-power; and by enabling us to rid ourselves of the impossibility of thinking of mind, but as connected with our old notions of matter, opens up infinite possibilities of existence, connected with infinitely varied manifestations of force, totally distinct from, yet as real as, what we term matter.

Contributions to the Theory of Natural Selection A Series of Essays Alfred Russel Wallace 1868

While they lie dormant, their potential capacities all inwrapped, they constitute what we entitle matter.

The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life William Rounseville Alger 1863

All matter that is the outcome of experience, in other words everything that is founded on fact, whether it be historical or physical, taken by itself and in its widest sense, is included in the term matter.

Essays of Schopenhauer Arthur Schopenhauer 1824

We know no other properties that make up the conception of substance phenomenal in space, and which we term matter.

The Critique of Pure Reason Immanuel Kant 1764

We cannot conceive the creation of a substance; we cannot conceive its annihilation; but we dare not affirm that the absolute master of all beings cannot also give feelings and perceptions to the being which we call matter.

A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

Thus in many fairly independent ways we are brought around to this same idea of a common structure underlying all the many seeming diversities manifested by what we call matter.

Q. E. D., or New Light on the Doctrine of Creation George McCready Price