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[mat-er] / ˈmæt ər /








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But -- and this absolutely can not be emphasized enough -- IT DID NOT MATTER.

From Salon • Jul. 21, 2010

But let us revert to the first stage and look at the nature of MATTER.

From Creation and Its Records by Baden-Powell, Baden Henry

In the common sense of the word MATTER, is there any more implied than an extended, solid, figured, moveable substance, existing without the mind?

From Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous by Berkeley, George

And, as these Powers cannot subsist by themselves, there is some subject of them necessarily to be admitted; which I call MATTER, and you call SPIRIT.

From Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous by Berkeley, George

With all my heart: retain the word MATTER, and apply it to the objects of sense, if you please; provided you do not attribute to them any subsistence distinct from their being perceived.

From Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous by Berkeley, George




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