But there are some self-subsistent and permanent, through which a determined object is given.
But this proposition does not signify that I, as an object, am, for myself, a self-subsistent being or substance.
Void space is not a self-subsistent correlate of things, and cannot be a final condition--and still less an empirical condition, forming a part of a possible experience.
But in the former case the composite could not itself consist of substances, because with substances composition is merely a contingent relation, apart from which they must still exist as self-subsistent beings.
The understanding is further the self-subsistent and independent being.
In general, that only is self-subsistent and independent which is an end to itself, an object to itself.
But the fact that time has thus passed beyond its empirical meaning in the mathematical realm is no ground for giving mathematics an elevated position as a science of eternal realities, of subsistent beings, or the like.
Thus the identity in character and operation, having been cut off from the changing elements in its real action, is transmuted into a substantial somewhat, a subsistent faculty.
The immediate identity of the natural soul has been raised to this pure "ideal" self-identity; and what the former contained is for this self-subsistent reflection set forth as an object.
The proximate truth of perception is that it is the object which is an appearance, and that the object's reflection in self is on the contrary a self-subsistent inward and universal.
The sum (for it cannot be properly called a system) of rights is a self-subsistent world, to which man is but a servant; and a second peculiarity of it is its inequality.
But some creatures are subsistent forms, as we have said of the angels (Q.
And since a simple and subsistent thing cannot be made except by creation, it would follow that the sensitive soul would arrive at existence by creation.
It follows therefore that to know self-subsistent being is natural to the divine intellect alone; and this is beyond the natural power of any created intellect; for no creature is its own existence, forasmuch as its existence is participated.
Therefore, although they subsist, nevertheless they are not several subsistent realities--that is, several persons.
But it is impossible for a form to be separated from itself; and therefore it is impossible for a subsistent form to cease to exist.
The sensitive soul is not a perfect self-subsistent substance.
Wherefore there can be but one subsistent filiation in God: just as there could be but one subsistent whiteness.
But the divine Word is something subsistent in the divine nature; and hence He is properly and not metaphorically called Son, and His principle is called Father.
But to God alone does it belong to be His own subsistent being.
Secondly, from what has been already proved, God is existence itself, of itselfsubsistent (Q.
But according to Plato, who held that universals are subsistent, the universal considered thus would be prior to the particular, for the latter, according to him, are mere participations of the subsistent universals which he called ideas.
When that act of understanding which is not subsistent is understood, something not great is understood; as when we understand our act of understanding; and so this cannot be likened to the act of the divine understanding which is subsistent.
And, when this question is answered as it must be answered, need we feel surprised if we fall short of conceiving the self-subsistent God?
History shows how a self-subsistent life is not created through the mere succession of events, but is always found as a life which is superior to the perpetual changes of Time.
Knowledge is possible only in so far as man participates in a self-subsistent life.
The self-subsistent life dare not feed on the mere analysis of consciousness or on the material which it already possesses.
Without such a self-subsistent life many intellectual achievements are possible, but they do not deserve the name of Knowledge.
Such a self-subsistent life must be operative in the foundation of our nature, but it must constantly receive its material from the most [p.
Thank ye His Highness the Incomparable One, that ye have become assisted in the service of the self-subsistent Lord and that ye are making copies of the Tablets of Abdul-Baha, spreading them all around.
Because, as stated above, nature designates that by which something is; whereas person designates something as having subsistent being.
Nevertheless, if human nature were subsistent in this way, it would not be fitting that it should be assumed by the Word of God.
Now properly speaking honor is given to a subsistent thing in its entirety: for we do not speak of honoring a man's hand, but the man himself.
The pure self-subsistent form which never combines with matter.
The pure, self-subsistent form gazes at and illuminates the penetrable form, and helps it to clothe matter with all the forms of which the latter is capable.
But that there must be something self- subsistent is evident, since unless this is admitted there will not be a true sufficiency in any thing.
For intellect being self-subsistent produces itself as united, and at the same time separated.
Hence for Plato the ideas are not the attributes of a mind, but that self-subsistent truth to which, in its moments of insight, a mind may have access.
If all of reality is finally reducible to sensations, then the term sensation must be used in a new sense to connote a self-subsistent being, and can no longer refer merely to a function of certain physiological processes.
If knowledge be the activity of a self-subsistent thinking spirit, how can it reveal the nature of an external world?
How is a real, a self-subsistent world to be composed of such?
In all this the individual is the sole self-subsistent reality.
Of a non-self-subsistent or attributive conception definition in its highest attainable form is a recasting of the syllogism, in which it was shown that the attribute was grounded in the substance or self-subsistent subject of which it is.
Substance, or being subsistentin itself, is also affirmed of God.
Subsistent in themselves are Father, Son and Spirit: the Father only has origin in himself.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "subsistent" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: being; current; existent; existing; extant; living; present; prevalent
