Sentence examples for the thing existing from inspiring English sources

A definition of a thing as having such and such properties does not commit us to the thing existing with those properties, even if one of those properties is said to be existence.

He states that the passiones anime (concepts/species) are signs of things, and such passiones are habits of the soul and species (representations/intentions) of the thing existing for the soul, and therefore, "they are offered only to the intellect so that they represent external things to that intellect" ([DS], 82).

(d″) If a mode is among the things existing in (a), then a substance exists.

Spinoza then runs a simple argument by cases: (d′) If a substance is among the things existing in (a), then a substance exists.

For he maintains directly that mind is "none of the things existing in actuality before thinking" (De Anima iii 4, 429a24).

Internet misogyny isn't its own separate thing, existing independent of real-world misogyny.

After one conceptually understands the negation of things existing inherently, for example, one meditates on this negation and eventually stops having concepts of things existing altogether.

Viewed in the perspective of all things existing between heaven and earth, the goodness of ri means that the world as such is also ethically good by nature and in terms of its potential being as well.

It is like we are doing two things: existing and watching ourselves exist.

So a BIV can have a justified, though not a grounded concept, about things existing in the external world.

(In the case of persons, for example, a candidate criterion of diachronic identity is: x is at t the same person as y is at t′ if and only if x at t is psychologically continuous with y at t′.) A criterion of synchronic identity, by contrast, will typically specify how the parts of an F-thing existing at a time must be related, or how one F at a time is marked off from another.