Recently, a significant study suggested that precursors of RNA, proteins and lipids may have derived by common chemistry [ 8] – while the result was inspiring for researchers working in the field of the origin of life, a clear notion concerning the difference between chemical existence and biotic existence, like mentioned here, becomes particularly important.
A familiar reply goes: the difference between the existence of chairs and the existence of numbers seems, on reflection, strikingly like the difference between numbers and chairs.
The converse of Theorem 5 is trivial (if truth entails possibility), so Fitch goes most of the way toward erasing any logical difference between the existence of contingent ignorance and the existence of necessary unknowability.
This would suggest that there is a difference between "the existence of A is rejected" and "the non-existence of A is accepted", and equally between "A is rejected as existing" and "A is accepted as non-existing".
There was no perceivable difference between his existence and nonexistence, as far as any of us were concerned.
The accident of elevation marks the difference between its existence as an unclaimable seamount — no more than a shipping hazard — and as a potentially hotly contested piece of actual, dry-land real estate.
In terms of metaphysics — the realm to which Mr. Carey seems most naturally drawn — this is also a book about grief, loss, madness, creation and the difference between living and artificial existence.
One mother said her son's support is the difference between "just a daily existence" and a "fulfilling and useful life".
Roughly, the argument goes as follows: 1) Because of how Ernie's zygote was formed, he is not free and morally responsible when he acts; 2) There is no relevant difference between how Ernie comes into existence and how an agent at a determined world (like Bernie) comes into existence; therefore, 3) determinism rules out free and morally responsible action.
