Sentence examples for failed to exist from inspiring English sources

Could an existing substance have failed to exist?

Since it is necessary that there are no such possibilities, it follows that, had some actually existing individual a failed to exist, there have been no singular propositions about that individual; or, as Prior often puts it, there would have been no facts about a, not even the fact that a fails to exist (see, e.g., Prior [1957], pp. 48-49).

No existing substance could have failed to exist.

Spinoza concludes that for any existing substance, it could not have failed to exist nor can it cease to exist.

It is commonly accepted that there are two sorts of existent entities: those that exist but could have failed to exist, and those that could not have failed to exist.

Rather than primitive ancestors of existing animals, the fossils emerge as complex, well-developed beasts in their own right - and as ancestors of creatures that for some reason failed to exist.

Note first that the thesis of serious actualism can be expressed as the thesis that all properties are existence-entailing; there is no possible world in which something has a property but fails to exist in that world.

So remember kids, clean up - or fail to exist!

So often, peri-urban sanitation schemes fail to exist, fail to be sustainable, or fail to be pro-poor.

Writing in the Guardian, they told companies: "Fail to adjust … fail to exist".

In such situations fair (envy-free) allocations usually fail to exist.