He argues convincingly that intellectual property exists "only insofar as it is recognised, defended and acted upon".
At the same time, they held the view that a mathematical entity (like an infinite set or a function) exists only insofar as it is "nameable by a finite number of words", against the platonistic views of Hadamard and Zermelo (see Borel et al. 1905).
Consequently, as individuals living in the world, we respond correctly to the question of truth by describing the experience of the true and insisting on the genetic development of the "ego": truth consists not as an object but as a movement, and exists only insofar as this movement is actually carried out by the ego.
A fugitive presence in his own mind and heart, he seems to exist only insofar as he can write himself, or be written.
Since no idea can exist outside a mind, it follows that tables and chairs, as well all the other furniture of the physical world, exist only insofar as they are in the mind of someone i.e., only insofar as they are perceived.
In Mr. Eugenides's book, and in the script Ms. Coppola has reverently carved from it, Lux and her sisters exist only insofar as they are the objects of masculine desire, which upon their deaths converts into regretful longing the way a liquid evanesces into gas.
Many, many personalities pass through Proust's text, but they exist only insofar as Marcel allows them to, and their stories are largely to serve his own purposes, as vehicles to understand himself and his family and his own desires and peculiarities.
Otherwise put, as simples exist only insofar as they are constituents of facts, there seems no reason why there couldn't have been a very small number of facts, indeed, just a single simple, atomic, monadic fact and, hence, a lone simple object and a lone simple universal.
Rule 5, which is actually Rule 1, which is actually the only rule there is: I exist only insofar as I violate you.
Instead, structure for Giddens consists of recursively organized sets of rules and resources that, acting as memory traces, are instantiated in human actions: "The structural properties of social systems exist only insofar as forms of social conduct are reproduced chronically across time and space" [ 22].
Foreign policy exists only and insofar it can give him an advantage in the domestic arena.
