Sentence examples for what exists only from inspiring English sources

Since there is no language-independent meaning of "Gavagai" or any other expression, there is no determinate classification of what exists, only ontological relativity: what a theory says exists is relative to the manual of translation it uses.

Pärssinen and the team of scientists estimate that the population at these sites may have been as large as sixty thousand people, and what's more that the sites found so far represent a fraction of what exists — "only ten percent of what is actually there".

In the New Economy, quite deliberately, Ford has been selling things you can touch and buying what exists only in the consumers' minds.

A chimera corresponds at least to something in speech or in the composing mind, even if it is not to something in the extra-mental world.[23] The word 'chimera' signifies what exists only in the soul; therefore, its definition shows not the essence of a thing (as there are no extra-mental things such as chimeras) but what the name signifies (NLP II.7, 381 382).

I'm listening to what comes through the door I opened, listening so that what existed only in my desire and curiosity can join the reality we all share.

At the same time, our words and deeds are intended to express the meaning of what exists, if only because they give meaning to things as they now stand.

In this way, the blocks become a physical embodiment of digital media, and act as a vehicle for the physical manifestation of what typically exists only in the virtual space of the screen.

You should forget all that stuff: your task is to be a sincere artist writing only about what exists or what you think ought to exist, painting pictures of life as it is.

Re "Remembering the Little Things: Older Monuments Guide Planners of Sept. 11 Memorial" (news article, Oct. 13): The architects who are planning a permanent memorial to the victims of Sept. 11 should not limit the breadth and scope of superb inspirational ideas only to what exists in the United States.

On another occasion (TUS 24) he criticises the view that composite macroscopic wholes cannot exist, and what exists instead are their parts only (a typical Buddhist nominalist position).

For nominalists such as Ockham, personal supposition offers a guide to ontology, since a term can supposit personally only for what exists per se.