Sentence examples for thing existing from inspiring English sources

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

"Maybe my love has always been this way," Myles writes, "a thing existing in language and so the ghost goes in and out the girl it's based upon and now my dog.

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.

Any such property would characterize substances (rather than other properties, or states, or abstract objects); it would be a property that could characterize a simple thing; it would be an internal (or, as some might prefer to say, "intrinsic") property of anything it characterized -- thus a thing existing in isolation could have such a qualitative property.

Both psychological-continuity and brute-physical views agree that there is something that it takes for us to persist that there are informative, nontrivial necessary and sufficient conditions for a person existing at one time to be a thing existing at another time.

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).

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

(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.

It's a thoughtful millennials' manifesto, written by one, which examines, among other things, existing in a chilly world after a childhood of warm and bountiful praise.

I was delighted to find a 16th-century copy of Marvels of Things Created and Miraculous Aspects of Things Existing, a book by Al-Qazwini, the 13th-century astronomer and geographer.