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(4) articulates a comparative value judgment about these ways of existing: it is greater for something to exist in both ways than it is to exist merely in the first way.
Maimonides here and elsewhere echoes Avicenna's idea of God as "necessary being"—literally, "The Necessary of Existence" (wājib al-wujūd)—whose essential nature it is to exist, and who, as such, does not rely on another for His existence.
Each is a questioning of what it is to exist.
The storekeeper's message to children is a variation of the old Peter Pan dictum that magic, if it is to exist, requires that you believe in it with all your heart.
By helping people to experience "science" in new ways, in unexpected places and with the quirkiest of collaborators, we hope to inspire them to reflect on the complexity of their lives and how remarkable it is to exist at all.
Curious things happen in these stories – characters mysteriously disappear, ironing boards become animate and walk out of apartments, a woman wakes up to find a breast has grown on her back – but their main subject seems to be how strange it is to exist at all.
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But as to whatever can be conceived but does not exist: if it were to exist its nonexistence either in reality or in the understanding would be possible.
If it were to exist, it could be distinguished by its reliance on different chemical processes, biochemical building blocks, codes, or metabolism.
It was to exist for just three years.
"If it's to exist, it must be self-sustainable, and it must be free of any conflicts of interest," he said.
If only they would put this mobile team on the native iOS Maps app…I mean, if it were to exist.
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