Sentences with phrase «existence of a particular kind»

It is the manifestation of existence of a particular kind that is important, not its activity, or lack thereof.

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And it should at once be noted also that as long as such a Church law is in existence, the character of its obligation, the possibility of being excused or dispensed from it, the possibility of discussing its expediency or the need to change it, the possibility of knowing oneself not bound by it in a particular concrete case etc., are of quite a different kind from any case in which an immutable divine commandment is involved.

If existence is identified with process, which is the questionable move in all «process philosophies,» all existents can only be analyzed in terms of the consequences of this temporal direction as applied to each particular kind of existent.

He chooses to give it the broadest possible sense: «Any kind of stabilized organization (of matter) implies the existence of teleological dimensions»; thus, «virtually any of the main aspects of our world can be taken as a particular case of teleology.»

What in an older kind of philosophy would have been called the chain - of - cause - and - effect is here seen as being very much richer; it is a congeries of occasions, events, pressures, movements, routes, which come to focus at this or that point, and which for their explanation require some principle that has brought and still is bringing each of them, rather than some other possible occurrence, into this particular concrete moment of what we commonly style «existence».

It is obviously true that the existence of an expert consensus on any scientific theory does not constitute any kind of logical proof that that particular opinion is correct.