According to other views like that of Adams (1981), haecceities are contingent existents, existing only in those worlds where their bearers exist.
The "coins" do not exist physically, of course, as the currencies are virtual existing only as computer files.
The writer, existing only in reflection, is of all beings most excluded from the highest realms.
Michel Faber once read a new story, then set light to it, the tale existing only in the collective memory.
But Ms. Allen's being physically present — as opposed to existing only as a disembodied voice — counts for a lot.
To think of such a being as existing only in thought and not also in reality involves a contradiction.
They come and then go, existing "only in the moment of their live transaction", says the museum's director, Beatrix Ruf.
Some no longer come out in print at all, existing only as online papers or as scaled-down news blogs.
The woman here can often seem like a rag doll, existing only to be flung and slung about by her date.
Nosing around, Ms. Jacob and Mr. Mosaka discovered a whole neighborhood, now vanished, existing only in the memories of its former inhabitants.
A theme is often a fragile creation, sometimes existing only in the minds of the listeners having been told they are listening to a concept album.
