Sentence examples for concepts of existence from inspiring English sources

In order to show that the acceptance of nonexistence is untenable, Gorampa argues that the concepts of existence and nonexistence depend upon each other; one makes no sense without the other.

With Bergmann 1970 and other critics who stress that we do not have different concepts of existence according to the nature of the objects, I shall in both cases use the word "exist".

The concept of existence identifies as basic and unquestionable the fact that something exists; to ask for a cause or explanation of there being something rather than nothing is to misunderstand the place of existence in the hierarchy of concepts.

At the heart of liberty is the right to define one's own concept of existence, of meaning, of the universe, and of the mystery of human life.

Both schools admit external relations (the relation of inherence being only partly internal), atomistic cosmology, new production, and the concept of existence (satta) as the most comprehensive universal.

Is a hypothetical woman who's already had one girl, can't afford more than two children, and really wants to her second child to be a boy somehow not "defining her own concept of existence and meaning"?

Furthermore, Justice Kennedy added, in a line that conservative critics of the Court find foolish, "At the heart of liberty is the right to define one's own concept of existence, of meaning, of the universe, and of the mystery of human life".

In 1992, joining with Justices Sandra Day O'Connor and David H. Souter to uphold the core of the constitutional right to abortion identified in Roe v. Wade, Justice Kennedy wrote by way of explanation that "at the heart of liberty is the right to define one's own concept of existence, of meaning, of the universe, and of the mystery of human life".

Certainly, in the assisted-suicide decision, the court turned away from the grandiloquent vision of liberty set forth in a 1992 refinement of its position on abortion: "the right to define one's own concept of existence, of meaning, of the universe and of the mystery of human life".

Texas in 2003, striking down a sodomy law, when people in the courtroom actually wept at his majority opinion, which stated that "the heart of liberty is the right to define one's own concept of existence, of meaning, of the universe, and of the mystery of human life".

Although the court has never embraced a right to die, it has in recent years, through Justice Anthony Kennedy, spoken of "the right to define one's own concept of existence, of meaning, of the universe and of the mystery of human life".