The incredible fluidity that maintains existence is what Latour calls "plasma" and is also, I would argue, what Buddhists call "interdependence".
Our model indeed predicts an ongoing battle for survival that requires any particular disease to be constantly "running" in order to maintain existence.
Interestingly, increasing population is an effective way of maintaining existence.
Friction drums maintained an existence in various parts of Europe, where they were played at Christmas, during the carnival season, or to greet the New Year; some of these traditions continued into the 21st century.
Quine (1948) famously maintained that existence is just what an existential quantifier expresses.
The capture of water resources has been the reason why such civilizations and societies have been described as hegemonic and have maintained their existence and survival.
This suggests that Plutarch probably maintained the existence of the Forms in God (cf. Timaeus 39e), as did several other Platonists in late antiquity (e.g. Alcinous, Didascalikos 163.11 17, with Dillon 1993, 93 96).
Finally, both Frege and Russell maintained that existence is not a property of individuals but instead a second-order property a property of concepts, for Frege, and of propositional functions, for Russell.
A despotism requires no powers to be carefully balanced against one another, no institutions to be created and maintained in existence, no complicated motivations to be fostered, and no restraints on power to be kept in place.
North Korea was not recognized as a separate country by the IOC who maintained the existence of one Olympic committee.
To determine whether a dynamic switch between the two states maintained the existence of two subpopulations, the labeled cells were plated separately at the same seeding density.
