Sentences with phrase «dependence upon things»
Nothing could exist as pure actuality, without relational dependence upon things other than itself.
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if nature is a thing that depends for its existence on something else, this dependence is a thing that must be taken into account when we try to understand what nature is; and if natural science is a form of thought that depends for its existence upon some other form of thought, we can not adequately reflect upon what natural science tells us without taking into account the form of thought upon which it depends (italics mine).
It is the way life makes way for more life.9 Death establishes a common fate for every living thing, and thus gives a decisive character to our dependence upon God and our unity with all His creatures.
When things are going rightly, toward actualizing their potentiality, the achievement is not independent of other occasions but in real dependence upon them.