mode of existence
collocation in Englishmeaningsofmodeandexistence
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mode
noun
uk/məʊd/us/moʊd/
formal
a way of operating, living, ...
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existence
noun
uk/ɪɡˈzɪs.təns/us/ɪɡˈzɪs.təns/
the fact of something or ...
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(Definition ofmodeandexistencefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Tape and the editing process made possible the creation of an entirely studio-based music whose solemodeofexistencewas as a recording.
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Theirmodeofexistencerequires that they be experienced by a human or animal subject.
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Thus, for the humorist, there is no really momentous distinction between those within and those outside a religiousmodeofexistence.
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That is, can urban industry stand on its own feet without forcing rural people to suffer from a stagnant, introverted, and austeremodeofexistence?
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There has been little significant change in the basic entity, ormodeofexistence, of the villages themselves.
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What is the ontology, themodeofexistence, of institutional reality?
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Because of their separatistmodeofexistence, they are imagined as having maintained a sacred, pre-modern cultural purity.
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For economics, themodeofexistenceof the 'commodities' and the mechanisms of 'disposal' are institutional.
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Binswanger's case-histories differed from the structure and format of the standard medical-study mainly in the presentation of an extended philosophically-informed analysis of his patients'modeofexistence.
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There can be two modes of existence; amodeofexistenceas a potential mode, and amodeofexistenceas an actual mode.
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We are not aware of the flaw in a girl's personality which makes her take up this extraordinarymodeofexistence.
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Essence exists only in persons; persons are themodeofexistenceof essence.
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For the deceased it marks the moment when the transition begins to a newmodeofexistencewithin the round of rebirths.
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The antipathy to them has been called sedentarism, which is defined as a specific form of racism against nomadic modes of existence.
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That is not to say that persons or their actions do not exist, but rather to say that ourmodeofexistenceis merely conventional, merely imputed.
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It is a question of modes of existence.
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I believe that there are two modes of existence struggling in this world for the spirit of mankind.
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It is not the presence of some other quality which is being affirmed in the place of the absence of those modes of existence.
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