If an object that subsists also exists, it is a real object, but if an object that subsists cannot exist (i.e., can merely subsist), it is an ideal object.
On the one hand (according to the characterization principle), the objective the fact that squares are round is a fact; on the other hand (as the objective in question cannot subsist), it is not a fact.
"Every composite," Anselm argues, "needs the things of which it is composed if it is to subsist, and it owes its existence to them, since whatever it is, it is through them, whereas those things are not through it what they are" (M 17).
It's so full of nutrients that monks used to subsist on it through Lent.
But in recent years people have found a way to subsist at it, by guiding, or working for apparel companies, or, as in Steck's case, thriving on sponsorships and speeches and slide shows — what Steck calls "business".
Renecker & Hudson (1992) provide an excellent review, using the moose (Alces alces) as an example of a large herbivore that, if high-quality food is abundant, can subsist on it.
He subsists, it seems, largely on oatmeal.
In this sense, "emptiness can well be described as 'outside' of and absolutely 'other' than the standpoint shackled to being, provided we avoid the misconception that emptiness is some 'thing' distinct from being and subsisting 'outside' it".
Curiosity is a part of who she is and she subsists in it.
"San Juan residents work and produce to allow the state to subsist, even though it does not serve the purpose for which it was created," Federico Manrique, an economics writer at the San Juan daily newspaper Diario de Cuyo, complained in a column this week.
When Anne arrogantly announces to Cromwell that "Since my coronation there is a new England" and that "it cannot subsist without me," he typically keeps his rejoinder to himself.
