substratum
IPA: sˈʌbstrˈætʌm
noun
- A layer that lies underneath another.
- (figuratively) The underlying cause or basis of something.
- (linguistics) A substrate.
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Examples of "substratum" in Sentences
- The substratum of the whole is limestone.
- It is the substratum of the other three states.
- But the term substratum is fine for the article.
- But the substratum of matter may also be simple.
- The substratum is below the surface layer and subsoil.
- It has formed the substratum for all subsequent editions.
- It forms the substratum of all material in a non material way.
- However, it is the cosmic substratum that is really expanding.
- A substratum is largely found in the context of language replacement.
- Is it not sufficiently expressed in the term substratum, or substance?
- Males deposit their spermatophores in the substratum of the environment.
- The word substratum is used only to express in general the same thing with substance.
- If so, the word substratum should import that it is spread under the sensible qualities or accidents?
- Nor does matter belong to those things which exist by nature but are not substances; their substratum is the substance.
- If we take away the useful labour expended upon them, a material substratum is always left, which is furnished by Nature without the help of man.
- Third, is that idea of substance as a bare substratum, which is “a supposed, I know not what, to support those ideas we call accidents.” (xxiii 15).
- For if the change is ‘alteration’, then the substratum is a single element; i.e. all things which admit of change into one another have a single matter.
- (A) ultimate substratum, which is no longer predicated of anything else, and (B) that which, being a ‘this’, is also separable and of this nature is the shape or form of each thing.
- The substratum is the cause of a thing's being or existence; the process of shaping or forming is the cause of its being a particular kind of being or existent, that is, of its having one set of qualities rather than another.
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