Thus the soul receives its act of existence as the soul of a human being, and cannot pre-exist the human being whose soul it is.
For example, in an early work on the German phenomenologist Edmund Husserl, La voix et le phénomène (Speech And Phenomena, 1967), Derrida argued that the philosophical emphasis on the "living present" concealed a dependence on the idea of death: I cannot use a sign - a word or a sentence, say - without implying that it pre-exists me and will outlive me.
The New York incest statute pre-existed by decades any public recognition of child sexual abuse.
His reader can feel confident that everything is part of a plan that pre-existed the novel.
In fact, as Machiavelli observes, it is very difficult for leaders to have real friends or to maintain those friendships that pre-exist their coming to office.
In fact, as Stephen Evans, campaigns manager for the National Secular Society describes, their objections pre-existed the discovery of how girls would be treated in the school, and how poor the education was.
The niches that the digital realm surfaces are often driven by a sense of cause, but that cause often pre-exists its digital kick.
While political authority thus pre-exists in the state of nature, legitimacy is a concept that is specific to the civil state.
Rather than treating hepatitis C in conventional terms, as a bounded, ontologically stable object that pre-exists its encounter with individuals and the material objects they use in injecting, it formulates it as made in its enfolding with other phenomena, including social relationships and technological objects.
Hence an effect must pre-exist in its cause.
