And from there, he said, it is another short step to positing an immaterial soul and a transcendent God.

A human is a single material substance, but still should be understood as having an immaterial soul, which continues after bodily death.

Secondly, or the same animal, without any regard to an immaterial soul.

Descartes believed that a human being was composed of both a material body and an immaterial soul (or "mind").

Leibniz himself sought to bridge the Gap by introducing monads to explain the existence of immaterial, eternal souls.

On the other hand, how could an immaterial soul close a valve?

As a Catholic priest, Gassendi believed in God and the immortality of an immaterial soul.

Finite in number, the limited material world they make up is not all there is, for, besides an infinite God, we have immaterial souls.

Not wanting to say that it has an immaterial soul, they allow that a horse has a continued identity despite changes of matter.

An immaterial, rational soul cohabited with its material counterpart in the brain.