Against his master, he argued with the Aristotelians for the priority of being (existence) over essence (form), which he called an abstraction; and, with Ibn al-ʿArabī, he argued for the "unity of being" within which beings differ only according to "priority and posteriority," "perfection and imperfection," and "strength and weakness".
But Russell sometimes treats the issue as one of priority rather than existence, as in (1911 [2003]: 92): "the existence of the complex depends on the existence of the simple, and not vica versa".
For that purpose, the main criteria were, in first priority, the existence of information in curated databases for the K. lactis genes and, in second priority, the existence of curated S. cerevisiae homologues.
Mīr Dāmād returned to Avicenna and sought to harmonize his views with those of al-Suhrawardī on the assumption that what Avicenna meant by his "Oriental" (mashriqiyyah) philosophy was identical with al-Suhrawardī's wisdom of "illumination" (ishrāq), which he interpreted as a Platonic doctrine that asserted the priority of essence (form) over being (existence).
The conflation of existence and priority monisms may have arisen with Russell.
Hume's second objection is that God cannot be the causal explanation for the existence of a series of contingent beings that has no temporal beginning, since any causal relation "implies a priority in time and a beginning of existence" (Part IV).
Given that poverty-prevention has been declared a top priority, one simply cannot take families' basis of existence away without offering alternative income options.
One might well think that the use of intuitions is particularly perilous on this topic (in contrast to the more mundane topic of existence pluralism) since the notion of ontological priority is a somewhat sophisticated theoretical notion.
Users who upload the priorities of their entire existence get to measure their most private dreams against everyone else's.
Few medieval texts so effectively communicate the Neoplatonic conception of the existence of a number of planes of being that differ according to their ontological priority, the derivative and inferior ones constituting a reflection in a grosser mode of existence of those that are prior and superior.
