Sentence examples for existence change from inspiring English sources

"Wechsel," it should be noted, is the word that Kant explicitly reserves for the notion of existence change as opposed to alteration (Critique, A 187/B230).

For Kant, to say that there is substance is to say that there is some stuff such that every existence change (i.e., origination or annihilation) is an alteration or reconfiguration of it.

(Wittgenstein may not have read the Critique in time for this to influence his phrasing in the Tractatus, but there is some reason to think that he may have read the Prolegomena, in which the world "Wechsel" is also expressly reserved for existence change. For details see Proops 2004).

In every aspect of human existence, change is a constant.

The people who survived the siege of the American outposts had their very existence changed irrevocably.

THEN Mr. Kristofferson went on the road, and his existence changed.

This anonymous provincial existence changed in 1963 with the eruption of the Profumo sex scandal, when Mrs. Whitehouse was horrified to discover that her girls regarded Christine Keeler and Mandy Rice-Davies, the two call girls at the center of the affair, as heroines and role models.

What remain in existence through these existence changes — and are reconfigured in the process — are Tractarian objects.

The purpose of our research was to increase students' perceptions about the existence, changes and opportunities of ugly.

What undergo "existence changes" are atomic states of affairs (configurations of objects): a state of affairs exists with respect to one world but fails to exist with respect to another.

For Wittgenstein, analogously, to say that there is substance is to say that there are some things such that all "existence changes" in the metaphorical passage from world to world are reconfigurations of them.