Sentence examples for historical existence from inspiring English sources

The historical existence of Helenus, Andromache and Aeneas makes no difference to the poetical quality of Virgil's poem.

Professor Ekirch soon learned that he wasn't the only one who was on to the historical existence of alternate sleep cycles.

That challenges the historical existence of Adam and Eve, and has sparked a crisis of conscience among evangelical Christians persuaded by genetic science.

Among the earliest Kazakh bards whose historical existence has been established is Buqar Zhıraw, an adviser to Ablay Khan, an 18th-century ruler of the Middle Horde.

He watched as American and South Vietnamese soldiers raided the village of Ben Suc, rounded up and beat prisoners, and then razed the village out of physical and historical existence.

Naturally and justifiably, Palestinian politicians rushed forward to cite the underlying racism and destructiveness of Gingrich's remark, which clearly sought to question the historical existence of the Palestinians as a people.

Arthur Ransome wrote that Wilde "read something of himself into Shakespeare's sonnets" and became fascinated with the "Willie Hughes theory" despite the lack of biographical evidence for the historical William Hughes' existence.

Blocked-out are questions which affect the temporal, historical and personal existence of human beings, or what Yorck once calls "existential questions" [Existenzialfragen] (CR, p. 62), which relate to the life-goals human beings strive after, the recognition of dependency, and the awareness of human mortality, finitude, and death (CR, p. 120).

The last two tirthankara, Pārśva and Mahāvīra, are historical figures whose existence is recorded.

Through this emphasis, historicism, understood as an outlook on the world (Weltanschauung), emphasizes the historical quality of human existence; as an interpretation of history and life, it concerns itself with concepts of individuality and with individual development.

Within the context of historical happening, within material existence, what the human being could potentially be is already present.