Sentence examples for idea of existence from inspiring English sources

For More, this is an idea of existence which makes no sense.

The imagery draws from one of mankind's oldest metaphors: the idea of existence as a river.

We join nothing to our idea of his parts or qualities, nor do we have a distinct and separate idea of existence itself (e.g., qua abstract idea).

Similarly, since we have no (abstract) idea of existence, distinct from the conception of particular objects, there is no basis for claiming that the idea of God implies his actual existence.

Existentialism did not develop much in the way of a normative ethics; however, a certain approach to the theory of value and to moral psychology, deriving from the idea of existence as self-making in situation, are distinctive marks of the existentialist tradition.

Thus, while rejecting the idea of existence itself being a perfection, Malcolm argued that necessary existence is a perfection.

For some, even those momentary events that make up the flow of the world are understood to be empty of inherent existence (the idea of inherent existence is understood differently in different traditions) to the point that what one sees in the enlightenment experience is the ultimate emptiness (sunyata) of all things.

Or perhaps children relish the idea of the existence of even smaller beings' existence, allowing them to imagine themselves as Gullivers in Lilliput, able to give or destroy at will.

Thus, if there is a value in love, it requires the existence of the other, not merely the idea of the existence of the other.

She had had no idea of their existence.

Needless to say, the public had no idea of their existence.