Sentence examples for every existent from inspiring English sources
Every existent other than God, including the universe, possesses a limited degree of perfection.
The (nonexistent) golden mountain exemplifies only nuclear goldenness and mountainhood, whereas every existent mountain exemplifies extranuclear mountainhood.
McTaggart focuses on the third sense of "eternal", which is the sense in which, given the unreality of time, every existent is eternal.
Recall that according to MOTo, the object called "the golden mountain" is not an abstract object but something as concrete as every existent mountain in the world.
Yet where Kant held noumena to be unknowable, Herbart takes the further step of ascribing to every existent "an act of self-preservation", a notion as opaque as it is important to his psychology (SW II: 195).
But given that all properties come in nuclear-extranuclear pairs, one might say: The round square exemplifies only nuclear roundness and squareness, while every existent square exemplifies extranuclear squareness.
Instead of trying to circumscribe every single existent and then offer an account of each in turn, Cavendish assumes the existence of the material objects in our local surroundings and argues that because our minds detect them, our minds are material, as is everything else that we come to encounter.
But presumably we do not want to say that Socrates depends upon the number 2, or indeed on most necessary existents that you might put in the place of 2. So the modal-existential account makes everything depend upon every necessary existent, which seems like the wrong result.
The divine Not-Other is simply not one of the things we are familiar with in the world we inhabit, where all is multiplicity and difference, where each thing or state of affairs is other than or different from every other existent thing or situation that obtains.
But Barnes 1971, for example, has Anselm committed to the much stronger claim that any existing thing is greater than every non-existent thing.
Note that if the total number of links predicted by the model is significantly different from the total number observed, this is not a useful measure of model performance – for example a naive model that predicts every link is present always predicts every observed link correctly, but at the expense of also incorrectly predicting every non-existent link.
