He compared that possibility to the situation he said exists with the large companies that own the television, radio and movie industries today.
Secondly, there is his facticity, for he exists as a finite entity with particular limitations (his "thrownness").
He exists still with a kind of shy radiance and the continued interest and esteem of readers.
The twist to his story is that he exists there with his entire family: he and his wife, Rose, in Flint, Mich., and their eight children.
"Man has to believe, to know, from time to time why he exists," Nietzsche wrote, with divine condescension.
But whatever the resolution of this particular debate, perhaps both parties can agree that God, if he exists, would deal with a much larger picture and a much longer time-frame than that with which we humans are immediately concerned.
He existed on state benefits but with his characteristic reluctance to compromise went on smoking and downing pints of Guinness.
He co-exists with the thing, doesn't use it much, and refuses to believe the Internet will render traditional newspapers obsolete.
In Ash Wednesday he writes, presciently: "The truth exists with or without our acknowledgment.
While accepting that some students have English as a second language and may struggle more with the final written exam, he says the discrepancy still exists with those students who do not have English as a second language.
He said that a different situation exists with benefits under the Scrie program.
