Being separate has to do with being able to exist independently (x is separate from y if x is capable of existing independently of y), and being some this means being a determinate individual.
Some perceptual experiences arguably represent objects as existing independently of the subject's mind (where something is mind-independent only if it does not depend for its existence on being perceived).
The church was "an institution, based on values and existing independently of the popularity of those values", not an organisation that could be remodelled and relaunched.
His book The Floating Islands (1979) examines a theatre existing independently that creates from whatever material resources are at hand.
Therefore, the notion of existing independently of perception has been misunderstood or mischaracterized by both philosophers and nonphilosophers.
Although traditional economic analysis takes the atomistic individual as its starting point, economic sociology generally begins with groups, or whole societies, which it views as existing independently of and partially constituting the individual.
Although Plato's usual term for them (eido) is often translated in English as Idea, it is clear that he does not think of them as mental but rather as abstract, existing independently both of mental activity and of sensible particulars.
Like every other type of object knowable by different mental states, values could also be classified as objects existing independently of the experience of values and of the world of sense experience.
