What Lee took to be the strange and greedy behavior of the two oldest Clutter daughters, who had moved out of the house before the murders, sealed her impression of a tight collective misery that must have rendered the existence of Nancy Clutter, the perfectionist teen-ager who was shot along with her parents and brother, an ongoing torment.
But as soon as one focuses upon evidential formulations of the argument from evil, a different interpretation is needed if the term is to remain a useful one, since the production of a logically consistent story that involves the existence of both God and evil will do nothing to show that evil does not render the existence of God unlikely, or even very unlikely.
Excluding persons from taking part in decisions can result in depression, frustration and anger, exacerbating the effects of the neuropathology already in existence, rendering the person even more debilitated [ 1].
The regularities that obtain in one's own case render the existence of such conscious states in others conditional certainties.
Even their efforts to educate their own youth were declared illegal – a tactic specifically designed to render the whole community's existence unviable.
In "Noah," the notion of God's existence renders the natural order frenetically, jinglingly, miraculously disorderly, and it grants a true believer a free pass for whatever atrocity he believes he's commanded to enact.
And, as it happens, it is candid about the reality of the sex industry and renders visible the existence the oldest profession in Iran.
Our first instinct was to wrap it in cling film, but realised that would have rendered the Keep Leaf's very existence pointless.
On the first alternative, the existence of moral facts renders the discourse fact-stating, whether the speaker thinks so or not, and the non-existence renders it evaluative, again whether the speaker thinks so or not.
