A common approach along these lines takes the fundamental notion to be that of bringing about existence, which is conceived of as a relation between two things.
Reality proceeds from the Light of Lights and unfolds via the First Light and all the subsequent lights whose exponential interactions bring about the existence of all entities.
How dare you remind the world of that lamentable time when Republicans actually courted the female vote nay, helped bring about its very existence?
Spinoza reasons that existing substances exist in virtue of having causes that bring about and explain their existence, and non-existing substances do not exist in virtue of causes that prevent their existence and explain their non-existence (Ip14).
But if an existing substance is completely causally isolated, what could bring about its non-existence?
Plantinga contends that God is not wrong to permit an evil of this kind, since God cannot bring about a vital good, the existence of free human agents, without there being such an evil.
Barandiaran et al. suggest, rather, that even very simple organisms can be said to have the intrinsic goal to be: to bring about the continuation of their existence.
The transitional account begins by claiming that the act of creation involves God bringing about the existence of all (contingent) things.
The problem is that once we quantify in an unrestricted way over whatever exists, letting the primitive relation of bringing about the existence of such things apply always and everywhere, occasionalism follows quite quickly.
But they both changed the most basic ways that people viewed human existence and helped bring about a new era in the history of human thought.
While real particulars (what Dharmakīrti calls "svalakṣaṇa"), characterized by their capacity to bring about an effect, are allotted conventional existence, Tibetan scholars are divided as to the spatial and temporal extensions of such particulars.
