Sentence examples for independently existing from inspiring English sources

And while Madame Blavatsky-style mysticism is ridiculed, even the devotees of "independently existing reality" may eventually give it credence.

In particular, they rejected the distinction between independently existing physical objects and mind-dependent sense-data.

His conclusion was that the world must consist of independently existing structures and mechanisms, which are perfectly real, but they must also be, as he put it "stratified".

According to Spinoza, only God can be called a substance – that is to say, an independently existing being – and everything else is a mode of this single substance.

Nestorianism envisages the divine Word as having associated with itself at the incarnation a complete, independently existing man.

In other words, if successful scientific theories are not understood as describing an independently existing reality, their success is impossible to explain.

It is "true" only in the way that a tautology is true by definition and not because it accurately represents features of an independently existing reality.

In nonscientific communities, the young physicist points out, the "difference between those who are committed to an independently existing reality and those who are not is roughly correlated with the distinction between the sane and the psychotic".

The mistake is to assume that birth certificates and biographical sketches and all the other documents generated by the modern bureaucratic state reveal an anterior truth — that they are merely signs of an independently existing identity.

In one philosophical picture, "objective" characterizes a relationship between knowers and reality-as-independently-existing; methodologically, the knower must be detached, because investment in a particular belief or attachment to a point of view ("bias") "could impede the free acquisition of knowledge and correct representation of (independent) reality…".

In this quote, she uses the term to denote 'independently existing' rather than 'real'real