Waugh viewed existence with a Manichean eye, and feared for himself and his soul in a fallen and still falling world: the Church, Hastings points out, 'offered a safe and solid structure, a discipline, an ordered way of life which, once adopted, held out a clear prospect of salvation'.
In trying to view existence, it is almost as if looking at an object flying through the air; we may not see the other directions in which it may travel.
Yes, it is a drug-induced state, and yet, for the time that it lasts, the habitual filters through which we ordinarily view existence are removed, revealing a magical universe residing in the very spot that we would have dubbed "mundane" and passed by without a second glance in our non-altered state.
In this, she separated herself from her New Thought rivals, who viewed the existence of religious institutions as a hindrance.
When every culture at that time viewed human existence in religious terms, the Greeks alone stood apart and began to view life in a philosophical way.
In Cole-Adams's view, existence is like that.
From Kant's point of view, existence claims were thought to be synthetic and in need of justification by the faculty of intuition.
On this view, existence is no longer seen as a (first-level) predicate, but instead, existential statements are analyzed in terms of the (second-level) predicate is instantiated, represented by means of the existential quantifier.
But, by the thesis of actualism, absolutely everything is actual and, by our view of existence, exists and so actually exists.
But both European and British regulators view the existence of the benchmarks as critical and have warned banks not to leave.
None of the parties view their existence as futile — immersing themselves in everyday local battles, they believe, will spread their influence.
