The shepherd or herdsman simply keeps his stock alive so that he may subsist on the animals' milk, blood, wool, meat, and value in trade.
This constraint in turn requires the postulation of a three-dimensional field in which the created universe may subsist, a field that Timaeus initially calls the "receptacle (hupodochê) of all becoming" (49a5 6) and subsequently calls "space"(chôra, 52a8, d3).
It could be argued that even though a scalable bitstream is not necessarily progressive, decoding dependencies may subsist in the bitstream.
Finally, the PBs may subsist as independent protein factories, as we have shown that they are surrounded by ribosome-studded ER membranes and contain ER-resident proteins, including protein-folding chaperones.
The ancient Native Americans of the desert Southwest subsisted on a fiber-filled diet of prickly pear, yucca and flour ground from plant seeds, finds a new analysis of fossilized feces that may explain why modern Native Americans are so susceptible to Type II diabetes.
"There is no part of it," writes Proclus, "which has already subsisted and another that will subsist later, but as yet is not.
It remains incredibly difficult to build a corporate legacy that will subsist.
As for things that subsist, he distinguishes between two different kinds of beings; namely, between beings that subsist per se, which he calls subsistences (hupostaseis), and beings that subsist in something else (enupostata).
Italos' terminology here clearly shows the influence of the Christian Fathers, and in particular of John of Damascus, who in his Dialectica draws just this distinction between subsistences, things that subsist in something else, and things that do not subsist.
("The idea that some undiscovered meaning may still subsist in a poem seems to be regarded as scandalous, a blow to collective moral security").
According to Italos (quaestio 19), things that do not subsist (anupostata) but depend on mere thought are not beings.
