Conventional nature corresponds to conventional truth and ultimate nature corresponds to ultimate truth, and given each entity is constituted by the two natures, the two truths define what each entity is in its ontological and epistemological terms.
Of course in the special case where the supervening entity is constituted by the entities it supervenes upon i.e., the things that are already there it makes some sense to say that it's not adding anything new; but it's not at all obvious that what Armstrong et al. declare to be ontological free lunches are constituted from the entities upon which they supervene (Melia 2005: 74 5).
In this way, entities are constituted by their perceptions and relations, rather than being independent of them.
For instance, asserts that there is a collective entity 'Population of Thai Elephants' that is constituted by 'granular parts' like our elephant 'Clyde' and a number of other individuals similar to 'Clyde'.
Banking foundations represent 88 non-profit entities that were constituted with the assets of saving banks dissolved in the 1990's in accordance with specific legislation [ 45].
According to Kymlicka's (1995) typology there are multinational states (states that are constituted of national entities that are defined in terms of language and territory, such as Spain, Belgium, Switzerland) and polyethnic states (with several ethnic communities born from immigration).
All the entities admitted in their ontology, except souls and space, are constituted by material elements (pudgalas).
As it has been constituted under Ms. Krawcheck, the firm consists of Citigroup's 12,400-plus retail brokers and approximately 300 research analysts globally, with no investment banking whatsoever, making it a unique entity on Wall Street.
On the other hand, against the idealist opponents of these early realists, Anderson of course insisted that no entities could be constituted, wholly or in part, by their relations (SEP, 43).
On this understanding, to adopt a physicalist view of the mental, say, is simply to hold that mental entities are metaphysically constituted by items that can also be found in stones, rivers and other non-special things (Montero and Papineau 2005).
This entity is highly complex.
