Sentence examples for necessary entity from inspiring English sources

For Ockham, the only truly necessary entity is God; everything else, the whole of creation, is radically contingent through and through.

While we can conceive finite, contingent, entities as nonexistent, we cannot conceive as nonexistent an infinite, necessary entity, namely, an entity that combines all affirmative features and properties to the highest degree.

They claim God is a necessary entity.

But then, why can't a godless multiverse be a necessary entity?

Explain how the universe can be explained without "God" and why God is not a necessary entity.

Trace metals are necessary entities of biological systems to trigger and regulate the key body functions.

Additionally, some are thought to function as immunodominant proteins [ 82] or have been linked with the mycobacterial cell wall, as necessary entities for lipolysis and lipogenesis of host macrophages [ 33] following infection, subsequently promoting replication of the tubercle bacilli.

The dichotomic view of TEs as either parasites or necessary beneficial entities is resolving towards a unified view, in which these are two aspects of the same process, which merge to form a continuum [ 39].

(A plural version replaces the singular variable 'x' with a plural variable 'xx' (read "the xs").) This leads to a familiar problem when truthmakers are sought for necessary theories: any entity (or plurality of entities) is a truthmaker for any necessary theory on the analysis.

This possibility is ruled out by Supersubstantivalism+, according to which it is necessary that any entity is identical to anything at which it is exactly located.

This contribution presents a sensor able to characterize thermal fluctuations on the wall an entity necessary as input to analytical investigation.