What is "nonphysical"

Usage examples of "nonphysical".

This way we would be ready to move once the Court sent over to us a judicial decree that permitted the issuance of a nonphysical remains death certificate.

Can you imagine any mortgage company in America at that moment in time, refusing to accept a New York City nonphysical remains death certificate, or not granting a WTC-victim family a few months grace on a mortgage payment?

AndFriend, free to roam the universe as a nonphysical thinking entity, alone.

Only on this nonphysical plane, she knew, could Leonie risk this kind of emotion.

No physical reactions were possible in this nonphysical plane, but Lenardo perceived from Clement something distinctly like a long, sad sigh.

Aric, quiet and thoughtful, master manipulator of words but about as nonphysical as it was possible to get.

The Invulnerables seem to be able to move from point to point in space by some nonphysical means.

Beka said, but there was a note of affectionate laughter in her voice, and the jangling, sharp-edged tension that was so much a part of her nonphysical presence eased off somewhat.

There were a few angry glares and muttered comments about pushy Solos, but the presence of a war droid and the fact that the group was not cutting forward limited the objections to the nonphysical kind.

On the other hand, they give no account of nonphysical, purely qualitative, sporadic, and unique phenomena.

Some scientific materialists have misleadingly argued that the closure principle must be a universal truth because scientific research has found no evidence of any nonphysical influences in the natural world.

Moreover, never in the history of modern science have instruments or methods been devised to detect the presence of nonphysical influences of any kind.

Research in modern biology and the brain sciences is conducted with the assumption, hardly ever questioned, that there are no nonphysical influences in organic evolution or in human affairs.

And at this point in history, it is certainly premature to declare that scientific knowledge of organic evolution and brain activity is so complete that nonphysical influences can be absolutely ruled out on purely empirical grounds.

No longer could this metaphysical dogma conform to the Judeo-Christian belief in a nonphysical, personal God who intervenes in the course of nature and human history and who responds to the prayers of individuals.