Sentence examples for Preexist from inspiring English sources
The word "Preexist" is usable in written English and is well written
It can be used when referring to something that exists before a certain event or condition. Example: "The concept of love seems to preexist in many cultures, influencing their traditions and values."
verb
To exist before something else.
- The new device utilized preexisting technologies.
She stressed, however, that individuals do not exist prior to or independently of the genders they "perform": "gender is always a doing, though not a doing by a subject who might be said to preexist the deed".
In its emphasis on sequence an effect does not preexist in its cause the Nyaya theory is at variance with the Samkhya-Yoga and Vedantist views, but it is not unlike modern Western inductive logic in this respect.
"That said, I didn't add or alter a single word or sentiment that did not preexist in the original text, for to do so would be to go against my nearly three decades' practice of conceptual writing, one that states that a writer need not write any new texts but rather reframe those that already exist in the world to greater effect than any subjective interpretation could lend.
Although James agreed with the notion that ideas are to be viewed as the differing ways in which God can be imitated, he did not think that one could make sense of the claim that God knows other things by cognizing his own essence unless one supposed that the essences of those things preexist in some way (aliquo modo) in God.
Like Wolterstorff, Levinson allows that all possible sounds, and patterns and sequences thereof, preexist anyone's compositional activities.
The Phaedo's discussion of recollection begins with a remark by Cebes in support of the claim that our souls preexist their incarceration in the body: "Such is also the case if that theory is true that you are accustomed to mention frequently, that for us learning is no other than recollection.
That is, before there was a historical Jesus born of Mary and accessible to the sight and touch of Jews and others in his own day, there was a Logos a principle of reason, an element of ordering, a "word"—that participated in the Godhead and thus existed, but which only preexisted as far as the "incarnate" Logos, the word that took on flesh and humanity (John 1 1 14), was concerned.
Nemesius implies that it preexists the body but not in the manner of the Platonic myth.
The tooth was extracted less than 30 days after his entrance on active duty, and a determination has been made that treatment for Tooth No. 12 was for defects which preexisted enlistment.
To what extent, in your view, did the Supreme Court of Florida consider itself bound by either prior precedent or the Constitution of the state, which preexisted? MR. KLOCK -- In terms of handing down this decision?
Proponents of preformation claimed that complex form preexists in the embryo and "unfolds" via ordinary growth processes.
