Sentence examples for distinct existence from inspiring English sources

Dietrich explains this principle in the second part of De intellectu when he tells us that "… an agent as an agent can contain in itself its own act or what is caused by it not only virtually, but also essentially, insofar as it is the same as its effect, but with a distinct existence (aliud esse)." Thus God and creatures do not enjoy the same being.

However, we were cautious about the distinct existence of mutated RTPs in the current population.

They lack the requisite independence, the capacity of existing in any combination with "wholly distinct existences".

For the state of affairs that Rab (where R is any non-symmetrical relation) necessitates that b exists, which seems to be a necessary connection between wholly distinct existences.

Cause and effect are, as Hume taught, conceptually distinct existences.

Extensional first-order logic embodies the Humean thesis that there are no necessary connections between distinct existences.

One line of thought appeals to Hume's celebrated doctrine that there can be no necessary connections between distinct existences.

And the defence is consistent with the realist principle that truth supervenes on being, and with the Humean denial of necessary connections between distinct existences.

One reason against supposing so is that both seem to violate Hume's dictum that there are no necessary connections between distinct existences.

For example, for useful more recent discussion of the more general issue of whether there can be necessary connections between distinct existences, see Wilson 2010.

Bradley seems here to be following the Humean idea that there are no logical relations between distinct existences: the reason that valid inference can be reflected in reality is that it can never take one beyond the original subject matter.