Sentence examples for by what existed from inspiring English sources

A: I should think that it is replaced by what existed before it was invented.

As an advanced adult, I am similarly perplexed by what existed before the Big Bang ("In Big Bang's Echoes, Clues to the Cosmos, (Feb. 6).

NATALIE JEREMIJENKO, an artist and engineer, is not constrained by what exists.

Yet humanist funerals are also, like all rituals, carefully scripted performances: sensuous events in which the semantic content of what is said is often eclipsed by what exists beyond language.

For example, a negative existential sentence such as 'There are no unicorns' is made true, it seems, not by what exists, but by what fails to exist: it is true for lack of any falsemakers.

Much of what existed by way of source material has disappeared.

What existed changed and changed.

It built on what existed.

What existed before our universe existed?

By transforming what exists into what is useful to us life is silenced" (Rogers [1998], 249 250 – author's emphasis; cf. Evernden [1993], 88 94).

The first portion of McTaggart's the Nature of Existence is devoted to showing that either reality and existence are in fact coextensive, or, failing this, that can learn everything important about what is real by studying what exists.