Sentence examples for non-existence of objects from inspiring English sources
Contingentists may reply that the non-existence of schmass (or the non-existence of objects that move in the way imagined) is itself a law, so that we have, after all, conceived of a situation where one of the actual laws fails (see Fine 2002).
This becomes clear when we think about the other question mentioned earlier: why does Śāntarakṣita, distinguish between perceptions on the one hand and love and hatred on the other hand based on the existence or non-existence of external objects?
While the argument about the difference between perception and love does not show that love requires previous experience, it raises, (at least) two interesting questions about the Buddhist account of the emotions: i) why does Śāntarakṣita draw a distinction between perception and feeling on the basis of the non-existence of external objects in the case of love, hatred and desire?
The content of a judgment is the existence or non-existence of the object presented.
To the existence (or non-existence) of an object represented by each of the compatible (or incompatible) ideas corresponds the existence (or non-existence) of an idea or a sequence of ideas which make each of the compatible (or incompatible) propositions true.
This idea appears in the previously quoted passage, in which Spinoza claims that citing a "cause or reason" suffices for explaining facts about the existence and non-existence of a triangular object.
If one takes that philosophical stance, then one is inexorably drawn to the foregoing constructive interpretation of the logical connectives and quantifiers: for how could a proof of the impossibility of the non-existence of a certain object x describe a mental construction of x?
For Ockham, not only was an intuitive knowledge able to produce an affirmative judgment of the existence of an extant object, but it was also able to affirm the non-existence of a non-extant object.
"From non-existence of force to existence of force.
There is no evidence whatsoever for the non-existence of God, and there is plenty of evidence for His existence.
7. Generally, the existence or non-existence of a private nuisance is a question of fact for the jury.
