Sentence examples for existence external to from inspiring English sources

If omnipresence means, not simply that God is cognisant of or active in all places, but literally that he exists everywhere, then it is hard to see how any finite being can be said to have existence external to God.

In this respect, the consideration of quiddity in itself which corresponds to the thing in itself as expressed by its definition transcends both levels of existence (external and mental) and in one passage is equated to the "divine existence" (wuǧūd ilāhī) of something that depends on God's providence.

Dreams here have an existence independent of, and external to, the dreamer.

This qualification is not explicit in the initial edition of the Recherche, which says only that the existence of properties of bodies external to us is "very difficult to prove" (Malebranche 1958 84, 1 122).

Benevolence, says Smith, may perhaps be the sole motive of the Deity, but "so imperfect a creature as man, the support of whose existence requires so many things external to him, must often act from many other motives" (p. 305).

A critical realist epistemological position offers the possibility of accounting for the ways in which the social world is constructed through language, whilst simultaneously recognizing the existence of an external-to-discourse reality.

We then investigated which of those regions showing preference for abstract concepts were sensitive to the absence of sensory information, as opposed to sensitivity to the existence of external referents or to other confounding factors.

What we know is the content and structure of our own ideas (epistemological idealism), although we have no reason to deny the existence of external objects (thus to assert ontological idealism) and even assume that in some regards external objects resemble our ideas of them (in the case of primary qualities).

It is evident that they appear due to the force of mental impressions … All texts that supposedly demonstrate the existence of external objects are provisional [descriptions of] their appearances".(Mipham 1977: 159 60ff) Consequently whatever appears to exist externally, according to Nyingma, "is like a horse or an elephant appearing in a dream.

In a recent interview, Revolutionary Guards commander Muhammad Jaffari conceded that since 2005, the regime has come to see domestic insurrection as an even greater challenge to its existence than external pressures.

Focusing on the aforementioned repercussions, the aim of this study is to confirm both the existence of external environmental costs and the need to internalise them, with the aid of appropriate economic instruments.