Sentence examples for as something that exists from inspiring English sources

"I've come to see Tourette's as something that exists on a continuum," says Lethem.

"This sets up a contrast between fashion as something western and costume as something that exists outside modernity," says Lewis.

Of course, as these things go, as I continued to write the other aspects of the story began to take over, and in the end the dead cats aren't so much the focus as something that exists on the periphery.

Recall our original concern: we want to know whether we can conceive of spacetime as a substance, that is, as something that exists independently.

In plain English, Tumblr can be best described as something that exists between Twitter and a traditional blog, for people who have more than 140 characters to say - but not much time in which to say it.

JC: The unique mix of personalities that the 6 musicians bring to this band will always keep our sound as something that exists in it's own space.

In the final phase #4, the idea is considered as something that existed forever (those who played roles in initial phases are already dead, physically or professionally, by the time the fourth phase started).

A lot of students, particularly those at large universities in major cities who grew up on the coasts, "think of anti-Semitism as something that existed for their grandparents and parents".

To the charge that what is defended here remains but a species of egoism— metaphysically enlarged, but still morally worthless — it may be replied that self-concern is to be deprecated only insofar as it is something that exists in contrast with concern for others; a contrast which no longer finds any purchase in this scheme.

A parallel text in Diogenes Laertius can be read in just this way: although a concept is not anything that exists and so does not possess qualities, it is nevertheless "as if" it were something that exists and "as if" it possessed qualities, "like the impression of a horse when none is present" (Diogenes Laertius VII 61).

11th century: since an infinite regress of causes is impossible, Avicenna argues, things that depend on a cause for their existence must have something that exists through itself as their first cause.