Sentence examples for as actually existing from inspiring English sources

Although almost all socialists abhorred Stalinist totalitarianism (by the 1980s, at least), these were regimes that described themselves as "actually existing socialism".

Ibn al-ʿArabī attempted to explain how Intelligence proceeds from the absolute One by inserting between them a primordial feminine principle, which is all things in potentiality but which also possesses the capacity, readiness, and desire to manifest or generate them first as archetypes in Intelligence and then as actually existing things in the universe below.

Despite this, there are emergent activities within the cleantech arena which are being heralded as actually existing examples of green economy activities.

Process theism rejects the counter-intuitive claim that the world as actually existing has no more value than the world as possibly existing.

Unlike (1), then, it appears that (8) requires us to understand the general possibility that there be an individual with a certain property P in terms of a specific mere possibile (as no actually existing thing could be Ratzinger's son) so that we can track that individual from one possible world to another to understand the nested possibility that it have another property Q.

The shadow planets actually existed without actually existing.

Importantly, however, unlike haecceities, roles are all purely qualitative, except perhaps insofar as they involve actually existing individuals, and are not in general assumed to be essential, or essentially unique to, any given individual.

Suppose (as is surely plausible) that an actually existing oak tree could have been different in some respects from the way that it is; suppose also that, even if it has some essential properties (perhaps it is essentially an oak tree, for example), it has no non-trivial individual essence consisting in some set of its intrinsic properties.

By using the material minimum as a basis, the actually existing energy savings become visible.

Neoliberalism has been rather seen as a set of "actually existing" neoliberalisms, with a small'n', which is characterized by a degree of conceptual openness and empirical diversification (Ong 2007) that makes it a "perplexingly amorphous political economic phenomena" (Peck 2004, 394).

For example, I could have had a brother and, given origin essentialism, if I had a brother, he would have been distinct from every actually existing objects, as no actually existing thing could have been my brother.