"existence" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- What is meant . . . by saying that existence precedes essence?
- His major thesis is that existence precedes essence.
- The reaction took on the name of existentialism, and was characterized by the phrase "existence precedes essence".
- The subjective existence of reality precedes and defines its nature.
- Even so, some orders still remain slightly independent from Rome, particularly the religious orders of solemn vows, whose existence preceded the reformation.
- What first affects us are things that exist and we form ideas of essences afterward, so existence precedes essence.
- The term "existence precedes essence" subsequently became a maxim of the existentialist movement.
- As existence precedes essence so emotion precedes and helps to create its object.
- As an existentialist, Beauvoir believed that existence precedes essence; hence one is not born a woman, but becomes one.
- Thus the car's existence cannot precede the steering wheel's existence.
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