Sentence examples for existing things from inspiring English sources

In chapter 3 Anselm argues that all existing things exist through some one thing.

There is, then, either some one thing through which all existing things exist, or there is more than one such thing.

To be red (or even to be an apple) it must already exist, as only existing things instantiate properties.

But since it exists (the analysis concerns existing things), its relation to the cause must be necessary.

Aristotle divided existing things into those that "exist by nature" and those existing "from other causes".

By similar reasoning, existing things are eternal because they cannot go out of existence.

In fact, all images, whether of existing or non-existing things, are (of course) made of the infinite atoms that swirl around and within us.

The members of the outer domain Do typically represent "non-existing" things.

Words can, indeed, be extended 'metaphorically' to cover non-existing things.

This suggests that the essences of all things, including non-existing things, are conceptually contained in God's attributes.

On older conceptions, free logic forbids any quantification over non-existing things (see Paśniczek 2001 and Lambert's reply in Morscher and Hieke 2001, pp. 246 8).