The Chinese state in its present dimensions has existed substantially for 2,000 years.
Sufficient to say that the game of football existed substantially enough by the middle of the nineteenth century for a Football Association to be formed, in 1863, consisting of twelve clubs, all but one of which are still in existence.
"It would mean that the Koran existed substantially as it has been passed down before Mohamed – before the traditional date of the beginnings of his revelations, or maybe even before he was born".
Nāgārjuna's arguments to the effect that mover and motion are interdependent, that the beginning and end of motion are not to be found "out there" in the world entail that the person who is reborn, the cyclic existence he is reborn in and the liberation from that cyclic existence do not exist substantially.
The bank's new headquarters does have a dining room, but it's been scaled down substantially from what once existed at 707 Wilshire Blvd.
In order to control the influence of the noisy chromosomal contacts in the Hi-C data, we consider that there existed a substantially interaction between two genes only if the number of chromosomal contacts observed between the two genes in the Hi-C data is greater than a pre-defined threshold.
The great Muslim sanctuaries became Christian churches, and in 1149 the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, substantially as it exists today, was consecrated.
The pictures, which document the mansion after a renovation done about 60 years ago, show a classical French interior with wood paneling, fine moldings and leafy sconces, which is substantially what now exists inside.
If there is someone who believes that some objects of kind x exist substantially the Madhyamaka will produce an argument to show that these objects really lack svabhāva.
This account is fine as far as it goes, but it would not support the contention that either cause or effect exist substantially, with svabhāva.
Even if there was no foundation for mereological dependence, i.e. even if there were no partless particles, or no foundation of causal dependence, i.e. no first cause there would still remain an important sense in which things exist substantially, namely independent of human cognition and conceptualization.
