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.
Second, we can equip young people for the world as it exists rather than as we would wish it to be.
Students will not use an online tool simply because it exists; rather, they must see value in it, including how it links to course objectives and has the potential to improve their summative assessment outcomes (Saunders and Gale, 2012).
It does so in its marriage annulment process, where it alleges that marriages of long standing never existed rather than admit its error in not allowing divorce and remarriage.
Altogether, our results suggest that to maintain for farmland birds, it is better to add new urban habitat in place where it already exist, rather than to spread it in small lots throughout the landscape.
"We are fully aware of the health harms associated with cannabis use, but contend that a rational policy must pragmatically manage the reality of use as it currently exists, rather than attempt to eradicate it using punitive enforcement".
In matters of doctrine, the Zohar and its appendices develop, amplify, and exaggerate speculation and tendencies that already existed rather than offer any radical innovation.
For starters, if the slave trade had not existed, rather few of the people we refer to as "African-Americans" would have been born at all.
Importantly, this isn't just because the law exists; rather, it's because when some brave souls take leave, that seems to reduce the stigma and encourage peers to take time off, too.
It is a maximization principle as it suggests that arbitrary subsets exist rather than only those that have enough regularity to fit in a definable well-ordering.
