Sentence examples for subsists by itself from inspiring English sources

In Greek religion, the most perfect manifestation of paganism, every one of these domains subsists by itself: the gods, the cosmos, and the human as the tragic, solitary, silent hero.

If a substance is what "subsists by itself," "stands underneath," and "keeps up" a set of properties, then a mental substance can only be what subsists by itself, stands underneath, and keeps up mental properties.

Hobbes elsewhere claims that Aristotle thinks that "the human soul, separated from man, subsists by itself", so presumably has Aristotle and Aristotelians in mind as targets (Hobbes 1668b, 46.17).

In an early paper ("Of Atoms") Edwards pointed out that the concept of a material substance is the concept of something subsisting by itself, standing "underneath," and keeping "up solidity and all other [physical] properties" (Edwards 1957–, vol. 6, 215).

It subsists by tacit agreement between the corrupters and corrupted.

The son of a vitriolically racist Illinois judge, Finn subsists by running trotlines in the Mississippi and inhabits a riverside house "fit only for dying in".

This socialism whether or not it be called "socialism"—subsists by eating up private capital, and in time it will produce poverty, relative or absolute.

It has been hypothesized that the fungus normally subsists by breaking down organic matter in a chilly place, and that it was transported into bat hibernacula, where it began to break down bats.

Up to 100 millimeters long, this species (Hymenolepsis microstoma) uses its four suckers and hook-packed snout (called a rostellum) to latch onto the bile ducts of rodents, where it subsists by absorbing intestinal fluids.

A vampire is a mythical being who subsists by feeding on the life essence (generally in the form of blood) of living creatures.

That army which accounts for over half of those living in poverty in the UK and which grew by 500,000 in 2013 is one that subsists by earning the minimum wage.