There is no change implied in God when contingent a comes into existence: (1) God's cognition has not changed, certainly, since cognition is indifferent to existence, but (2) God's knowledge has not changed either, at least not in any serious sense.
Does the fact that God knows contingent a entail that his knowledge changes when a comes into existence in time?
The book opens and closes with complementary views of a society coming into existence around a massive traffic jam.
The wood makes up a table, and a table comes into existence by the wood being arranged in a tablish way.
He adds: "The controversial hypothesis we test is that the processes leading to a new species coming into existence provoke a short, sharp burst of rapid genetic change.
It does not read like the normal output of Her Majesty's Stationery Office, but uses clear, succinct language to create a vivid picture of a new community coming into existence.
Once these capacities include a first-person perspective, a person comes into existence, and this person is constituted by the human animal (2000: 115–16; cf. 2007: 72 82).
Contracts arise when a duty comes into existence, because of a promise made by one of the parties.
Fix is currently looking for funding to make the prospective home a reality, and we are excited at the prospect of such an architectural feat coming into existence.
If your country is a member of the Berne Convention, copyright in a song comes into existence when you create it.
There are borderline cases where it is vague whether or not the activity of some simples constitutes a life (consider, for example, the question of when, exactly, a person comes into existence or passes away).
