The correspondence of our thoughts to reality, that is the truth of our ideas, depends on something that actually exists and not on something independent of existence.
Does the way the novel is constructed from the ebb and flow of its characters' inner lives capture something of human existence, just as pictures composed according to the rules of perspective capture something about the relationship between object and viewer?
A sense-datum, he says, is supposed to be something of whose existence we know in every case of perception.
Trapattoni has led something of a nomadic existence in a managerial career that has brought him league titles in four countries.
Inference is of three kinds: inference of the nonexistence of something from the existence of some other things, inference of the existence of something from nonexistence of some other, and inference of existence of something from the existence of some other thing.
In the same way that to be conscious of something's existence is not to be conscious of any quality of it, being conscious of oneself as oneself could be something over and above being conscious of qualities of oneself.
"There is something about that sort of existence that, if you really focus on each other and you're in that bubble, it's very intoxicating, because it's just the two of you," Kidman says.
The only way we don't just keep babbling endless questions like hyperactive six-year-olds is by reducing the infinite complexities of existence to something more simple.
"Most of what I know about writing I've learned through running every day," he writes, observing that both undertakings require an obsessiveness, endurance and strict adherence to schedule... plus something vague about the nature of existence.
So does the fact that, in baseball, the players are out standing in their field half the time; the game's built-in contemplative idleness and concentrated musing — thought as action — capture something of the natural state of existence.
