Behind all Chateaubriand's works lies the sense of a break, caused by the French Revolution, in a stable, ordered existence.
It means maintaining a balance between liberty and restraint, restricting freedom for the sake of an ordered existence.
But when Rose, a fellow nuclear physicist whom they haven't seen for 38 years, suddenly turns up, their precariously ordered existence is disrupted.
When I was a young man, I clung to the notion that a safe and ordered existence lay ahead for me, if I just followed the rules.
Events, those troubling things that tend to dominate the lives of prime ministers, have rarely barged into his ordered existence.Once safely installed in Number 10, Mr Brown will have to take big decisions on a daily basis.
The novels of Jane Austen, designed primarily as superior entertainment, imply a desirable ordered existence, in which the comfortable decorum of an English rural family is disturbed only by a not-too-serious shortage of money, by love affairs that go temporarily wrong, and by the intrusion of self-centred stupidity.
The mathematical analysis of axiomatic theories of truth and second-order systems has exhibited many equivalences between these second-order existence assumptions and truth-theoretic assumptions.
There are also reductions in the other direction: Tarski (1935) has shown that certain second-order existence assumptions (e.g., comprehension axioms) may be utilized to define truth (see the entry on Tarski's definition of truth).
I then explore the interaction between quantifiers, tense operators, modal operators, and a universal, first-order existence predicate in an attempt to expose some difficulties such a view faces.
I end this section by briefly discussing issues that arise with the interaction between quantifiers, tense and modal operators, and a universal, first-order existence predicate, as this interaction is the source of another important cost of this account of existence.
