But Condillac maintained that the being itself would not at first have any conception of objects distinct from itself or even any conception of itself, let alone any views on the metaphysical status of its sensory states.
Now an absolute reality must be a se, from itself, and so not dependent on anything distinct from itself for either its nature or its existence.
The given content of sensibility plays an ineliminable role in cognition, and its source must ultimately be traced to the subject's being affected by something distinct from itself, a role played by the thing in itself.
Both "reclusive" – or just intensely private – and gestating movies over decades with intense perfectionism, each man has constructed a genre distinct unto itself, built on an instantly recognisable style and underpinned by complete creative control.
Counter clerks apply mustard, chopped raw onions, celery salt and the true hallmark of hot wieners: a greasy ground-beef sauce that's not quite chili, not quite gravy, distinct unto itself.
(Recall that something is accompanied iff it coexists with something wholly distinct from itself that contingently exists).
Avicenna attempts to explain the idea that God cannot act for the sake of something distinct from itself as follows.
Self-identity is not, however, a real feature of the substance in any sense distinct from itself or its nature.
This ends up either under-determining which identities hold, or, absurdly, entailing that some stuff is distinct from itself.
