Accordingly, a pre-existent state has entered into the popular creeds of many nations, and among all persons acquainted with classic literature is known as an ingredient in Platonic philosophy.
The earth and the surrounding heavens; the creation; the system of created things; existent creation; the universe.
That of which the sensible universe and all existent bodies are composed; anything which has extension, occupies space, or is perceptible by the senses; body; substance.
The teleological argument, or that argument which, from the evidence of design in the creation, seeks to establish the fact that the great self-existent first cause of all things is an intelligent and voluntary personal spirit.
The moral argument, or that argument which, from a consideration of the phenomena of conscience in the human heart, seeks to establish the fact that the self-existent Creator is also the righteous moral Governor of the world.
A non-existent all-perfect Being is as inconceivable as a quadrilateral triangle.
If the universe was in all respects precisely identical with the self-existent being, then it must have been infinitely powerful, wise and good, and must have been self-existent.
By self-existent I mean that the conception of which, if it be conceivable, does not involve the conception of antecedent or consequent.
By self-existent I mean that to which you cannot conceive antecedent.
In the first, if the new universe was an improvement, then the previously self-existent being could not have been infinitely good.
Much is revealed in the story by which Livy, in his inimitable manner, accounts for the Sororium Tigillium, or the Sister's Post, a monument which he says was existent in his own day.
Does anyone feel as keenly interested in any real living cobra or anaconda as in the non-existent great sea-serpent?
It implied, as it were, an admonition to those who were about to enter the temple, to worship God, who is the only self-existent Being in the universe.
If the British General Staff had nothing better to do than to compile guide-books to Belgium for a non-existent British army, it appears merely amusing.
The author has ventured to lead his readers on a mad-brained chase after non-existent motor-cars and mythical French gold.
For us his gravest experiences can have no reality whatsoever; for no matter how real an experience may be to him it is altogether beyond our powers of perception, and therefore, to us non-existent also.
And much more commonly (and these are the more difficult cases in science) conceptions are not pre-existent even in this sense; but they have to be got (e.
In so far as the subject is the artist, however, he has already been released from his individual will, and has become as it were the medium, through which the one verily existent Subject celebrates his redemption in appearance.
I answer in a word: If mind is one thing and true opinion another, then there are self-existent essences; but if mind is the same with opinion, then the visible and corporeal is most real.
For the idea or pattern of the world is not the thought of God, but a separate, self-existent nature, of which creation is the copy.
Yet perhaps Plato may regard these sides or faces as only the forms which are impressed on pre-existent matter.
He places before us the ultimate idea of a self-existent First Cause.
It is to be hoped that the writer of this rather strong statement had insight enough to perceive that these eternal harmonizers of the whole Universe do, in fact, constitute a self-existent Mind.
But Martin, thorough sportsman that he was, and keen to all the world's affairs, understood but little of the conditions existent in the wilderness, or about the lives and morals of those who find a living thus.
All the untidiness existent about this dwelling was hid in darkness, and only the faint sounds and odors betrayed these conditions.
These were the summer conditions existent at Christmas Cove.
As a matter of fact, this disease is almost non-existent in the State of California.
But to say that some pre-existent association of human beings is prior to every particular human being who is born into the world is to mention a commonplace.
Reason as observation of an adaptation of acts to valuable results is not however a mere idle mirroring of pre-existent facts.
Get-rich-artists sold tickets in non-existent spacecraft they claimed had secretly been built in anticipation of the disaster.
Not when a desperate emergency requiring a non-existent garrison to report for duty was so probable.
This creation can not be a formation out of a pre-existent matter, for no form of matter can possibly bear any resemblance to God (Acts xvii.
This theory as to the descent of man's material organism from some pre-existent generic type does not by any means involve the conclusion of Sir J.
So far as sensible experience goes, every case of physical motion is a transformation of energy, and every new physiological unit or aggregation of units is derived from pre-existent bioplasm.
No particle interferes with its neighbor, but all these wonderful influences are co-existent in every point in space!
The theory that reduces all existence, material and mental, to phenomenal manifestations of one eternal self-existent substance which evolves itself according to an inward law of necessity, and which is elusively called God, is Pantheism.
Either the force manifested in the universe is the force of a self-existent and self-determining Intelligent Will, or we can form no conception of it whatever.
By his initiative Italian naval industry, almost non-existent in 1873, made rapid progress.
O king, this is the divine forest of the Self-existent One, which hath now come to our view.
He never remains non-existent for a single moment.
On the mighty occasion of that sacrifice, the Self-existent One made a gift of this entire earth with all its hilly and forest tracts, to Kasyapa, by way of gratuity, for ministering as a priest.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "existent" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
