Sentence examples for order to exist from inspiring English sources

Since immaterial substances less than God are dependent on the divine causality in order to exist, existing cannot be what they are of their essence.

He goes on to argue "essence does not need existence [to exist] and [its existence] is not in relation to an existent since [if] essence prior to existing was non-existing (ma‛dūm), then how can something need something else [in order to exist] prior to its existence?" (Ḍarūrat al-taḍād fi'l-'ālam wa'l-jabr wa'l-baqā', 125).

The apple I see does not depend on my perceiving it in order to exist: (pace Berkeley and phenomenalists) its existence is independent of my, or for that matter anyone else's, seeing it.

If (ii) is true, then "there is surely some one power or nature of self-existing that they have in order to exist through themselves" (M 3); in that case, "all things exist more truly through that one thing than through the several things that cannot exist without that one thing" (M 3).

Conversely, everything that does not exist necessarily and therefore has a possible relation to existence is something that is possible, so that in order to exist it always and necessarily refers to a cause that makes it exist: a cause that justifies the fact that instead of being possible (mumkin) and therefore not already assigned to existence, the thing is qualified as existent.

It's a strange idea: to resist in order to exist.

Something that required my fidelity in order to exist.

The work relies on this collaboration in order to exist.

"Every man needs aesthetic phantoms in order to exist," he said.

If we are among the simulated minds, then we exist in order to be stimulated minds: we exist in order for the controllers to run experiments.

A parental relationship or longstanding live-in relationship had to exist in order to be considered as a stepparent.