In working with a client, "one thing we usually look for is whether there is a language that already exists" rather than needing to create one from scratch, he added, and in this instance PHL fit the bill.
Premise 2 invokes a version of the Principle of Causation or the Principle of Sufficient Reason; if something is contingent, there must be a cause of its existence or a reason or explanation why it exists rather than not exists.
I met with the USGBC last week in Washington and we were talking about the growth of LEED for existing building during this time because people are looking to invest more in what already exists rather than create new.
In any case, it presumes that race actually exists, rather than being a social construct.
Building on what exists, rather than clearing it for redevelopment, may preserve not only the character of a place but also its economic vibrancy.
Second, we can equip young people for the world as it exists rather than as we would wish it to be.
The issue for conservatives is not whether a suitable alternative to Mitt Romney exists – rather, which one to choose from a crowded field.
The program is particularly useful, he said, because most of the data in a modern medical research laboratory is not entered on paper but exists rather in the form of computer files.
But because it exists so far only in fragmentary form, Professor Harvey said, string theory must assume that a particular space-time background exists, rather than letting one emerge naturally from the interactions of the particles.
The Internet, said Stahlman, would aid the society that already exists, rather than alter it beyond recognition.
