I found purpose and immense value in learning and understanding different modes of existence.
This difference is explained not by appealing to some semantic distinction between terms, but by means of the different modes of existence of their significata.
"The sun as it exists objectively is able to represent the sun as it exists formally in the heavens precisely because it is the same thing that has these two different modes of existence" (Hoffman 202, p, 168).
Thus the unity of the different modes of Being is grounded in a capacity for taking-as (making-present-to) that Aristotle argues is the essence of human existence.
"Religion is a different mode of thinking.
"This technology creates an entirely different mode of doing business.
For writers, walking can bring a different mode of thinking.
We are developing a completely different mode of consciousness.
Like many contemporary philosophers of mind, Collingwood holds that the mind/body distinction is ineliminable, but for him such ineliminability is not connected to the existence of different modes of access.
Existence of different modes of transport possibly also gives the cell/organism flexibility to switch between modes of transport depending on the cargoes being transported in a certain physiological or developmental stage.
Like Dr. Sacks, who made her famous as the title figure in his 1995 collection "An Anthropologist on Mars," Dr. Grandin has helped us understand autism not just as a phenomenon, but as a different but coherent mode of existence that otherwise confounds us.
