Sentence examples for any existing thing from inspiring English sources

4. Spinoza's argument for (12) invokes an a posteriori claim that something or other exists (he uses "we exist" in Ip11d, but any existing thing will work).

But Barnes 1971, for example, has Anselm committed to the much stronger claim that any existing thing is greater than every non-existent thing.

Now the truth value of "Harry is golden" supervenes upon its subject matter without there needing to be any existing thing distinct from Harry or being golden that necessitates their existence; it is enough that the statement would have been false if Harry had lost his hair or been dyed.

If however the "powers, wants, habits, and possessions" of different people were widely different, then the average would not represent "the character of any existing thing".

some new state of an existing thing or substance, or, more shortly, causing a change of state of some existing thing.

However, an 'absolutely unreal' thing can have no properties, and hence a fortiori no properties in common with an existing thing.

In chapter 3 Anselm argues that all existing things exist through some one thing.

There is, then, either some one thing through which all existing things exist, or there is more than one such thing.

I do not share believers' faith in a personal, transcendent, interventionist God, but it has always seemed to me that to be sure that their devotion is not to any objectively existing thing is not necessarily to regard that devotion and the charitable attitudes and actions that result from it with any sort of scorn.

Since any really existing thing is truly what it is (even if it may on occasion appear something else), any cognition of any really existing thing is the cognition of a true thing.

To capture the intuition that no such child could be identical to any actually existing thing, then, McMichael can simply deny that the role R′ that would be exemplified by such a child is accessible to the role of any actually existing thing.