Incorporeality

Incorporeal or uncarnate means without a body. In ancient Greece, a media such as air was said to be incorporeal, as opposed to solid earth, in so far as it offers less hindrance to movement, (so as not to presuppose the existence of perfect vacuum). In the problem of universals, universals are separable from any particular embodiment in one sense, while in another, they seem inherent nonetheless. Aristotle offered a hylomorphic account of abstraction in contrast to Plato's world of Forms. In modern philosophy, a distinction between the incorporeal and immaterial is not necessarily maintained: a body may be described as incorporeal if it is not made out of matter. The idea of the immaterial is often used in reference to the Christian God or the Divine.