"It was as if The Island claimed him with its secrets, its essential existence, made him a part of its rhythms, turned him fleetingly into more than he was," she writes, with typical confidence regarding his largely unknowable inner life.
This dependent origination (between a label and what is labeled) precludes the essential existence implicit in the Epistemologist's sva-lakṣaṇa.
For Tsongkhapa, it is only possible to understand cause and effect (in particular, as experienced in the immediate moment by an embodied person), by correctly understanding that dependent origination precludes any essential existence whatsoever.
Or, rather, I'd compare it to water: essential to existence, life-enhancing and sometimes beautiful, but with the power to damage and destroy if misused.
Beyond the debate it has triggered about tenants' rights and power-mad co-op boards, the Pullman case serves as a reminder of how one person can affect dozens of lives simply by becoming a neighbor -- and of how compromise is so essential to existence in this thin-skinned city of eight million.
Human functions are essential for existence and survival.
Both personal experience and many of the world's philosophies indicate that times of suffering are inevitable if not essential to existence, as if pain were built into the thing like the mark of the hour on a clock.
It has been argued that the traditional God has incompatible attributes, namely, necessary existence, essential omnipotence, essential omniscience, and essential moral perfection (Pike 1969).[7] The contention has been that it is impossible for God to have the power to bring about evil, while non-omnipotent (and morally imperfect) beings may have this power.
"My story is stripped down to its bare essentials: between existence and nonexistence," he tells us.
By Louis Menand "When you are as worried as Europe is about the bare essentials of existence, you are not much interested in ideas," Hamilton Fish Armstrong, the editor of Foreign Affairs, wrote in 1947 after a visit there.
There are at least three kinds of want: first, a shortage of the essentials of existence, such as minimum nutrition, clothing, and housing; second, the absence of elements, such as education and recreation, that give meaning and purpose to life; and third, the absence of the extras that advertising proclaims as necessary to good living.
