Sentence examples for existing creatures from inspiring English sources

If by "possible existence" Descartes just means the dependent existence of actually existing creatures, then passages in which Descartes speaks of a thing as being possible or having possible existence are not evidence that Descartes holds that there are things that could be but are not.

They first examined the bones of existing creatures.

They study fossils, and they make educated guesses based on existing creatures.

That in turn should be driven by other considerations, such as which theory delivers correct content ascriptions for us and other existing creatures.

It forms a fresh platform to put new pieces on, but it also crossbreeds two existing creatures in the world.

If we discover, on the other hand, that these planets and moons are devoid of life and we're the only existing creatures here in this solar system, then there may be no harm in moving into these locations because we can only make them better.

The arguments, though, always had to touch on the ant an actually existing creature that behaved in certain ways.

It was chosen to be purposefully more ambiguous than a specific, existing creature, and to have mythical connotations.

And when we talk about delusion, we are not talking about some mystical, inherently existing evil, some externally existing creature or problem… We are basically talking about a mistaken idea, or a mistaken habit.

Alternately, it might be the case that like Spinoza (in Ethics Part IV, definitions three and four), Descartes uses the expression "possible existence" to describe actually-existing creatures, and in a way that is consistent with a denial of non-actual reality.

Approaching biological systems, such obtained artificial creatures are capable of different autonomous movements influenced by the interaction with their environment similar to existing walking creatures in nature subject to the same van der Waals forces.