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Existence meaning
The state of being, existing, or occurring; beinghood. | Empirical reality; the substance of the physical universe. (Dictionary of Philosophy; 1968)
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I,2 in the Vaisheshika philosophy, from casual non-existence is effectual non-existence; but, not effectual non-existence from casual non-existence.
Contingent beings, therefore, are insufficient to account for the existence of contingent beings: there must exist a necessary being whose non-existence is an impossibility, and from which the existence of all contingent beings is derived.
He also distinguished between intuitive and abstract cognition; intuitive cognition depends on the existence or non existence of the object, whereas abstractive cognition "abstracts" the object from the existence predicate.
In fact, the mere existence of the Mutant Turtles was proof that other ‘mutanimals’ could be created as well–resulting in the villainous Bebop and Rocksteady along with a number of other mutants created in the wake of the Turtles’ exposed existence.
It was also proof that the imprint of a parent’s existence on a child’s existence is everlasting.
Not a single of the latter can be measured or weighed with any scales, yet we know full well that our existence ultimately depends on their existence.
One, given that human beings, as a fundamental part of their existence, often end life тАУ animal, human, plant тАУ and alter nature in various ways, an act of will towards one’s own existence is not against the natural order.
After all, oxygen was first a poison which threatened the very existence of early life, yet it is now the fuel vital to our existence.
As such, they say that the research casts doubt on the very existence of dark energy, because the major evidence pointing to its existence relies on these supernovae all having a predictable brightness.
It can be no surprise that those who abhor truth, who contort their minds to avoid reality, who want to be coddled in the myth of riskless existence, are those most bothered by the very existence of the gadfly.
The CCP long denied even the existence of the concentration camps, but after the proof became so plentiful and conclusive, they admitted to the existence of what they call educational centers dedicated to teaching job skills.
In fact, for the first 18 years of Israel’s existence, right up until 1966, for the first quarter of Israel’s existence as a state, Palestinian citizens were forced to live under military rule, under martial law.
In other words, the “sperm-drop” phase is the start of human existence, and existence is the basis for human dignity, as with other living creatures.
McAleer played primarily for the Cleveland Spiders, a team which flowered into existence in 1887, joined the National League two years later, and then were one of the teams blinked out of existence in 1899—along with Wagner’s first team, in Louisville.
At the top of the heap are the archangels, the first four supreme creations of God, brought into existence briefly after the beginning of existence itself.
Every fairy tale has its peasants; the existence of royalty demands the existence of subjects.
A semantic feature is a written method which can be used to express the existence or non-existence of pre-established semantic properties by using plus and minus signs.
Atheism The 2009 survey by the Guttman Center found the following distribution: * Believing in the existence of God – 80% * Not believing in the existence of God – 20% Fertility rates between secular and religious groups also differ significantly.
Both contain the concept of teaching via the middle between the extremes of existence and non-existence.
But as Kierkegaard argues, the proper logical flow of argument is that existence is already assumed or presupposed in order for thinking to occur, not that existence is concluded from that thinking.