subsistent

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The fundamental tenet upon which the system is built up is that what is incomplete must be not self-subsistent, but must need the support of other things before it can exist.

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  1. Continuing to exist; having existence; subsisting. Such as deny there are spirits subsistent without bodies. Sir T. Browne, Vulg. Err., i. 10.
  2. Inherent. These qualities are not subsistent in those bodies, but are operations of fancy begotten in something else. Bentley.

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  • But in this definition, the elements are no longer self-subsistent at all. —  My Philosophical Development
  • We shall now, being resolved still to regard matter as self-subsistent, say M is the one Whole, of which space and motion are mere adjectives; it is a Whole not validly analysable into simple reals, though there may, in some sense, be centres of condensation, as in the world of spirit. —  My Philosophical Development
  • Within any science, all contradictions not thus unavoidable are logically condemnable; from the standpoint of a general theory of knowledge, the whole science, if taken as a metaphysic, i.e. as independent and self-subsistent knowledge, is condemnable. —  My Philosophical Development
  • He does not die and He is not evanescent; He is the Eternal, the Self-subsistent Who has no beginning. —  Find Free Articles - ArticlesBase
  • Thus, the Power by which the body is produced appears as a self-subsistent, metaphysical entity, ubiquitous, disconnected from social and economic relations, and as mysterious in its permutations as a godly Prime Mover. —  Counago & Spaves
 

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  1. = P. subsistant = Spanish Portuguese subsistente = Italian sussistente, from Latin subsisten(t-)s, present participle of subsistere, continue, subsist: see subsist.
 

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