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Definition of non-physical in English: non-physicaladjective nɒnˈfɪzɪk(ə)l 1Not relating to or concerning the body. 非身体的 both physical and non-physical ill-treatment 身体和非身体的虐待。 Example sentencesExamples - Mental illnesses may be cured in the future if we look at non-physical causes of these illnesses, and help people understand what they're going through.
- Staff are also now trained in non-physical techniques to diffuse a confrontational situation as well as in physical self-defence.
- The Bill permits parents to smack their children, although this should not be taken to mean that I endorse physical punishment over other non-physical methods of control.
- Some Scottish patients thought that such non-physical needs went unmet.
- They are just a convenient way of dealing with your non-physical functions.
- My job is to pick non-physical fights with people.
- The difficult areas relate primarily to non-physical harm, such as economic loss or psychiatric damage, and liability for omissions.
- As for bullying, I was sometimes the victim of non-physical intimidation.
- A more appropriate solution to deal with allegations of non-physical abuse would be through counselling, leaving the police and courts free to provide adequate sanctions to protect those really in need.
- During this period and later she insisted on keeping their relationship non-physical, preferring to regard it as a ‘spiritual union’.
- Some investigators focus on physical violence alone, whereas others include a broader range of abusive behaviours, including emotional and other non-physical abuse.
- The relationship, obviously, is entirely non-physical.
- NHS SMS said people using verbal abuse or threatening behaviour - non-physical assault - would be dealt with under a system of sanctions.
- Women could not gauge other, non-physical factors, such as the person's charisma, from the picture.
- Instead, compliment them on other things, perhaps on their non-physical qualities.
- However, what is so unique about this method is that it includes intuition, and every massage is given differently because the practitioner is intuitively sensing their client's physical and non-physical clues.
- This part consists of six sections, reflecting and emphasising the breadth of available non-physical interventions.
Synonyms intangible, impalpable, non-material 2Not tangible or concrete. 不可触摸的;不具体的 non-physical digital money Example sentencesExamples - Mathematicians, most of whom act as Platonists, believe that mathematics is an actual ideal non-physical realm that lies behind our familiar reality of objects.
- The second is that the interaction between non-physical mind and physical body breaks some law of physics: it is because of something to do with the physical, with physical law, that the problem arises.
- Some believe it is non-physical and that it can be separated from the body.
- Healthcare hardware and nuclear reactors fall into this category, but he expands his scope to show how non-physical aspects become integral to the entire design.
- It seems here to amount to the claim that things like consciousness, agency and free will are real - though non-physical - and that they are, in principle, beyond scientific, or at least mechanistic, explanation.
- Taken from another perspective we have to look at trade in the non-tangible and non-physical sense, it's all in the creation of value added in a digital economy.
- This is not an abstract non-physical entity, but a physical expression in the design of our brains, of genes that have evolved over millions of years.
- Having assembled all his evidence, he devotes the closing sections to a discussion of what evidence ghosts offer for the existence of a non-physical self, for survival after death, for the nature of time and reality.
- There are non-physical entities known as angels.
- Now, if I go back to magic as ‘the apparently acausal connection between intent or will and results,’ I find that this is no different a claim than some make about every act my non-physical mind has on the physical world.
- Quite aside from these difficulties, Cartesians are as much in the dark about how non-physical things manage to think and feel as their opponents are about how physical things can do so.
- Recall that, for Godel, mathematical intuition represents some sort of relationship between humans and the non-physical, mathematical realm.
- Some philosophers have, in the past, leaped from this sort of consideration to what they take to be a proof that the mind is essentially non-physical in nature.
- Descartes' position, called substance dualism, has raised fundamental questions about how a non-physical mind could have an effect on a physical body.
Synonyms impalpable, untouchable, imperceptible to the touch, bodiless, incorporeal, unembodied, disembodied, abstract, invisible
Derivativesadverb The odds of reporting higher levels of past month marijuana use for physically abused youth were 56% greater than the odds for non-physically abused youth, other things being equal.
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