Sentence examples for existential facts from inspiring English sources

For believers, writes Leiter in his new book, "Why Tolerate Religion?" religions "render intelligible and tolerable the basic existential facts about human life, such as suffering and death".

This division depends upon whether sign-vehicles signify in virtue of qualities, existential facts, or conventions and laws.

An example of a sign whose sign-vehicle uses existential facts is smoke as a sign for fire; the causal relation between the fire and smoke allows the smoke to act as a signifier.

Further, as with the classification of the sign in terms of the sign-vehicle and the object, Peirce identifies qualities, existential facts, or conventional features as the basis for classifying the sign in terms of its interpretant.

Just as Peirce thought signs could be classified according to whether their sign-vehicles function in virtue of qualities, existential facts, or conventions and laws, he thought signs were similarly classifiable according to how their object functioned in signification.

Nevertheless, by accepting an assumption that existential "facts of life", as Yalom describes them, are part of the terrain of sickness and death, health providers can attune themselves to patients who do wish to engage these concerns obliquely or straight on.

One response to this existential fact – perhaps the most common response – is to avoid the issue of mortality as much as possible.

Having asserted early in the book that "poverty is never political" (without revealing what else it could possibly be besides a simple existential fact), he appears to have left himself few other options.

If on the other hand, our interpretation comes in virtue of some brute, existential fact, causal connections say, then the sign is an index.

But through the agency of Facebook by way of Flipboard I found my self confronting the existential fact of Henri the cat.

Some years ago, the Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Zizek read national personality — in fact, "existential attitude" — into the place where we, well, shit.