The Necessarily Existent is therefore absolutely one, indivisible and unique (Ilāhiyyāt, I, 7, 47, 6 9; cf. VIII, 4, 5) and the properties of the possible are deducible as opposite to these (e contrario) (Ilāhiyyāt, I, 7, 47, 10 19): the possible is caused and twofold (Ilāhiyyāt, I, 7, 47, 18 19); in itself it does not exist and therefore always receives existence from something else.
We have to be convinced that this act in turn receives its existence from me, and we appear headed for a vicious regress.
Existing entities receive actual existence only in the course of time when the divine will intervenes to cause this.
The being of essence thus coincides with the possibility, or the ability, to receive actual existence that a purely imagined res does not have.
The idea of a distinction/composition thus has a precise theological function: not only does it distinguish everything from the Necessary Principle (everything except the Principle is twofold: Ilāhiyyāt, I, 7, 47, 18 19); it also reveals the divine creative act: everything except the Principle receives (or obtains) existence (Ilāhiyyāt, VIII, 3, 342, 10; Taʿlīqāt, 175, 10 176, 7).
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.
No one of the limitations alleged to be imposed by law on the absolute authority of Parliament has any real existence, or receives any countenance, either from the statute-book or from the practice of the Courts".
The idea that a distributed pattern of activity across several regions differentiates attentional and memory processes better than activity in any single region receives support from the existence of functional overlap within the PFC.
Their gilded existence received a traumatic jolt in 2002 when the first of their three children, Ivan, was born with cerebral palsy.
And just days before Mr. Chalabi's public fall from grace, the Bush administration's most celebratedly careful dissident, Secretary of State Colin L. Powell, declared that he now believes that the intelligence he received about the existence of mobile biological laboratories in Iraq was fabricated, and that American intelligence agencies were duped.
"Existence" received mostly positive reviews from critics.
