Sentence examples for existent entity from inspiring English sources

If the nature of an effect is the same as the effect and a thing can never be separated from its nature, then it would follow that an existent entity would go on causing its own existence over and over again.

They were not really an existent entity in my life so I prefer not to talk about it.

A simple entity is not reducible to conceptual forms, or conventional designations, nor is it compositely existent entity.

In the Geluk tradition, self-awareness is rejected as a notion that attributes to the mind a special status as an independently existent entity, and this idea is seen as one that hypostasizes the mind.

Suppose instead that one adopts a version of a 'fixed domain' conception of quantification on which one has a fictional individual at one's disposal as a nonexistent entity in the actual world and as an existent entity in other possible worlds (Priest (2005), Berto (2011)).

Postponing discussion of its precise logical status for Leibowitz, and provisionally accepting that "God is radically transcendent" is a cognitive statement, a rough first formulation of its meaning would be that God is an existent entity that is absolutely incomparable to any other form of reality that we can possibly encounter.

It is commonly accepted that there are two sorts of existent entities: those that exist but could have failed to exist, and those that could not have failed to exist.

For example, one can take the argument for indispensability described above and replace all references to existent entities with references to entities assumed to exist as follows.

It was said earlier that the "engendering command" (al-amr al-takwînî) is the creative word "Be!" (kun) and that it turns nonexistent entities into existent entities.

The fixed entities are not the "archetypes" of the existent entities but are rather identical ('ayn) with them; nor are they "essences", if by this is meant anything other than the entities' specific whatness.

Early translators opted for expressions like immutable or permanent "archetypes" or "essences", without noting that there is no difference in whatness between "fixed entities" and "existent entities" (a'yân mawjûda).