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	Learn more about Existence in the online encyclopedia. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Frege and Russell, among many others, for similar reasons are well-known for their view that 'exists' is not a (logical) predicate, or more precisely, not a first-order predicate, or that existence is not a property.
		That is, contemporary philosophers at least are wont to treat existence as a univocal, unambiguous concept, as if the only sense of 'existence', or the only sort of existence worth talking about, were the existence of physical objects.
		Consequently, some discussions of existence have an unclear bearing on, for example, the sense in which numbers, possibilities, and properties exist (or might be thought to exist).
	www.onlineencyclopedia.org /e/ex/existence_1.html (555 words)

	Water puzzle, experimental math
		However, the proof, drawn from my experiments with the puzzle, is constructive, i.e., it provides a prescription how to solve the puzzle.
		For convenience, I'll use a triplet (x, y, z) to describe the current state of the puzzle such that x is the quantity of water in the first glass (the one with capacity a), y - the volume of water in the second glass, and z - in the third.
		It claims existence of X and Y for every pair of a and b with no common factors.
	www.cut-the-knot.com /water2.shtml (831 words)

	Kierkegaard, "God's Existence Cannot Be Proved"
		Existence must be assumed in the premisses; it cannot be proved.
		If the subject of the conclusion exists and the conclusion is true, then we must have assumed the existence of that subject in the premisses of the argument.
		Often the defense of God's existence as exemplified in such occurrences is ultimately circular.
	philosophy.lander.edu /intro/kierkegaard.html (746 words)

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		This cause of existence must either be contained in the nature and definition of the thing defined, or must be postulated apart from such definition.
		Of this they find excellent proof in the fact that we understand by body a definite quantity, so long, so broad, so deep, bounded by a certain shape, and it is the height of absurdity to predicate such a thing of God, a being absolutely infinite.
		Wherefore it must follow from, or be conditioned for, existence and action by God or one of his attributes, in so far as the latter are modified by some modification which is finite, and has a conditioned existence.
	www.bralyn.net /etext/literature/benedict.de.spinoza/1spne10.txt (9106 words)

	Theology Today - Vol 20, No. 2 - July 1963 - CRITICSCORNER - Rationale of the Ontological Proof
		Conversely, that the existence is really necessary not only does not contradict, but entails, that in a suitable language the assertion of this existence is logically necessary.
		Professor Hick has a different idea of what the fallacy of the first proof is: namely that, while "existence is a necessary element in the idea of the supremely perfect being, it does not follow that this complex concept of an existent all-perfect being corresponds to anything in extra-mental reality.
		The fallacy of the first proof is not that it supposes existence to be a predicate in the one unique case of divine existence, but that it tries to prove this unique status by a dubious rule about existing things in general, compared to merely conceived things.
	theologytoday.ptsem.edu /jul1963/v20-2-criticscorner3.htm (1690 words)

	Existence Article, Existence Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The words (and concepts) 'existence' and ' being ' are treated in slightly differentways in Western philosophy.
		That is, contemporary philosophers at least are wont to treat existence as a univocal, unambiguous concept, as if the only sense of 'existence', or the only sort ofexistence worth talking about, were the existence of physical objects.
		Consequently, some discussions of existence have anunclear bearing on, for example, the sense in which numbers, possibilities, and properties exist (or might be thought toexist).
	www.anoca.org /exists/view/existence.html (575 words)

	Scotus' Proof of the Existence of God - DISCUSSION
		For me, to be in potency in relation to existence in the actual world is to be in act in relation to existence in a possible world, and to be in potency in relation to existence in a possible world is simply to be in act to existence in another possible world.
		Therefore, incompatibility with existence is equivalent to self-repugnance, and it is impossible then that a self-consistent merely possible being not existed and yet were not in potency in relation to existence.
		Proof of the minor of the preceding syllogism is per exemplum: the predicates merely possible and actual are themselves by definition contradictory predicates.
	agora.metaphysica.skaut.org /scotus.htm (9900 words)

	Journal of philosophy 12
		As such, deducing the existence of Existence from the existence of existents is the logical equivalent of someone deducing the three-sidedness of triangles from the fact that every triangle she has ever seen has had three sides.
		Indeed, denial of the a priori necessity of the existence of Existence is a contra of Aristotle’s law of identity.
		The issue for those speakers denying existence as an intelligible phenomenon while affirming the construct of identity derives from their presupposition that the identity is a construct in-formed by a set of external factors, including hereditary determinants in the subject's own organism, for whose operation the subjective perception of volition and intentionality is irrelevant.
	iranianstudies.org /philosophy12.htm (13863 words)

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		As, therefore, God's intellect is the sole cause of things, namely, both of their essence and existence, it must necessarily differ from them in respect to its essence, and in respect to its existence.
		Wherefore, a thing which is the cause both of the essence and of the existence of a given effect, must differ from such effect both in respect to its essence, and also in respect to its existence.
		Proof--The proof of this proposition is similar to that of the preceding one.
	www.deistnet.com /thethics.txt (20144 words)

	Overcomeproblems.com - Proof for existence of God
		The cause for that person's existence is due to the the effect of his/her parents bearing a child.
		The cause for the parents existence is due to each of their parents bearing a child, and so on.
		Since all life forms we know to exist are imperfect (including ourselves), each of those life forms must look to a source outside themselves as the source of their own existence.
	www.overcomeproblems.com /don't_believe_in_god.htm (4331 words)

	['Aalim Network QR] Proof Of Existence of our 12th Imam (as)
		Belief in Imamat in general, and existence of the twelfth Imam with material body on the Earth in particular is part of Ussul-e-Din according the Shia's belief.
		a) While the validity of the rational proof is derived directly from itself, the validity of authoritative proof is directly based on the trust one has in the authorship of the statements, but indirectly this trust must be linked to a rational proof of the author's authority and sincerity in that area.
		Let me conclude this part on the authoritative proof of the existence of Imam Mahdi, by saying that even if we had no rational proof of his existence this much would have been enough to establish it as one of Foru'a -e Ddin, since in Foru'a-e Ddin authoritative proof is enough.
	al-islam.org /organizations/AalimNetwork/msg00183.html (3314 words)

	Medieval Sourcebook: Anselm: On the Existence of God
		Nevertheless, they attempted to prove his existence anyway, and the basic strategies employed by them are the ones used every since.
		For no one who denies or doubts the existence of "a being greater than which cannot be thought of" denies or doubts that, if it did exist, it would be impossible for it not to exist either in reality or in the mind.
		Whatever can be thought of yet does not exist, even if it should come into existence, would not be "a being greater than which cannot be thought of." Thus "a being greater than which cannot be thought of" would not be "a being greater than which cannot be thought of," which is absurd.
	www.fordham.edu /halsall/source/anselm.html (4855 words)

	Subject: A Synthetic Proof that God Exists
		The following proof uses Godels' theorem as a stepping stone to proving the existence of an infinite mind, which is then identified with God.
		Godel's incompleteness proof showed that any closed system is incomplete in the sense that there are true sentences that are unprovable in the system.
		In less picturesque terms, the proof could only be given in a system more powerful than ours, one which is "up a type" from ours.
	www.flowresearch.com /syntheticproof.htm (549 words)

	PROOF OF THE EXISTENCE OF GOD. Free term papers for college, book reports and research papers. Welcome to Quality Essays
		Proof Of The Exsistence of God The Case For The Existence of God by John Doe, Ph.D. Introduction Either God exists or He doesn't.
		Inferential proof (the culmination of many lines of evidence into only one possible conclusion) is an invaluable part of a `prima facie' case which simply cannot be refuted.
		His conclusion: The mere existence of that cell should be one of the greatest astonishments of the earth.
	www.qualityessays.com /essay/013397.html (5514 words)

	Proof of the Existence of G–d \| Chabad.org
		In short, the proof of existence of any matter does not necessarily mean that we have to sense it in any way.
		In a court of law the strongest proof that something happened or existed is a witness statement.
		This is neither tradition, nor philosophy; rather, proof of the existence of G–d as the G–d of history.
	www.chabad.org /library/article.asp?AID=108386 (6462 words)

	Proof of Existence of Allah (SWT) - Shahid Hasan al-Banna--Ummah.comLearn about Islam
		Proof of Existence of Allah (SWT) - Shahid Hasan al-Banna
		Rational and logical proofs of the attributes of Allah, exalted be He.
		These are examples of logical proofs of the existence of the Creator and His attributes.
	www.ummah.net /forum/showthread.php?t=39509 (2798 words)

	existence proof
		For those of you who do not know this type of proof consider the following outline of a proof.
		Of course I rather see this number but sometimes this is not possible, after all there are a lot of possible numbers to check.
		The thing that I found strange was that in his proof he narrowed down the irrational number raised to irrational number which is rational to TWO numbers- (sqrt2^sqrt2) and (sqrt2^sqrt2)^sqrt2.
	www.usenet.com /newsgroups/sci.math/msg01703.html (216 words)

	View topic - The Proof Of Existence Of God !!!!!
		And you have shown ID to be a theory almost without merit as it puts the conclusion first and then finds the proof for it as it goes, even when the proofs would normally point against it.
		But without those adequate proofs, it is adding something to the equation that is not needed, and thus, should be removed by Occam's Razor until such proof is sufficient to warrant the additions.
		And until you can prove ID theory beyond reasonable doubt, my stance of doubting the validity of both claims and using Occam's Razor is still more than valid, as all this will boil down to is a matter of opinion in interpreting the evidence presented.
	www.thechristiandefense.com /sutra21931.html (5528 words)

	sciforums.com - burden of proof and existence of god
		I think that the proof of god should come from the best explainable phenomena, not from some mathematical or logical proof that demonstrates perfectly that god exists.
		I am assuming since you are using it as a proof that god exists that you are saying that god is saving or protecting them (or something along those lines).
		Again, the existence of a god is not required for this statement......
	www.sciforums.com /showthread.php?t=13707 (5984 words)

	How successfully does the Ontological Argument work as a proof the existence of God.
		How successfully does the Ontological Argument work as a proof the existence of God.
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	SSRN-Abraham Wald's Equilibrium Existence Proof Reconsidered by Reinhard John
		For his proof of the existence of a general competitive equilibrium Abraham Wald assumed a strictly pseudomonotone inverse market demand function or, equivalently, that market demand satisfies the Weak Axiom of Revealed Preference.
		In order to clarify its role in Wald's proof, the question of existence of an equilibrium for a modified version of the Walras-Cassel model is reduced to the solvability of a related variational inequality problem.
		In general, the existence of a solution to such a problem can only be proved by advanced mathematical methods.
	papers.ssrn.com /sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=151468 (183 words)

	apex*
		But I doubt that we want to see the proof as "showing" - say, to someone who didn't already believe it -- that exactly-as-many-as is symmetrical, for its symmetry seems intuitively more certain the fact about bijections that is appealed to in the proof.
		The proof motive for positing platonic objects is not without merit; the proofs that the objects enable really are instructive.
		An argument is classically valid iff, bracketing any worries about the existence of models, it has no countermodels; an argument is circumscriptively valid iff, bracketing any worries about the existence of models, none of its countermodels is a minimal model of its premises.
	www.mit.edu /~yablo/apex.html (15021 words)

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		Proof of Existence : Nintendo, the Show & The Movie(PV).
		Proof of Existence : Episode 1: Pokémon, I Choose You!
		Description: This guy was in the first episode of the show when he flew through the rainbow.
	www.geocities.com /Hollywood/Park/5751/NewPokemon.html (831 words)

	An Existence Proof for Systems Reuse
		Despite the number and complexity of potential reuse inhibitors, systems reuse is being successfully practiced.
		Before exhibiting a proof that systems reuse is delivering on its promises, it is important to define what is meant by the term "cost savings."
		The facts behind this statement constitute the existence proof of this article's title.
	home.comcast.net /~dshartley3/ARC/STC.htm (4598 words)

	Amazon.ca: Does God's Existence Need Proof?: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Supplemented by an excellent bibliography, this book should be of value to all those interested in the Philosophy of Religion." --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
		The possibility of proving the existence of God has fascinated thinkers and believers throughout the centuries.
		For those like Richard Swinburne, such a project is both worthwhile and successful.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0198267479 (226 words)

	Energy Citations Database (ECD) - Energy and Energy-Related Bibliographic Citations
		Energy Citations Database (ECD) Document #6967629 - Global existence proof for relativistic Boltzmann equation
		Availability information may be found in the Availability, Publisher, Research Organization, Resource Relation and/or Author (affiliation information) fields and/or via the "Full-text Availability" link.
		The existence and causality of solutions to the relativistic Boltzmann equation in L[sup 1] and in L[sub loc][sup 1] are proved.^The solutions are shown to satisfy physically natural a priori bounds, time-independent in L[sup 1].^The results rely upon new techniques developed for the nonrelativistic Boltzmann equation by DiPerna and Lions.
	www.osti.gov /energycitations/product.biblio.jsp?osti_id=6967629 (135 words)

	Over Three Hundred Proofs of God’s Existence (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		(1) Proof of God's existence will be available when you rise bodily from your grave.
		(2) The existence of God is thus a necessary condition for the existence of America.
		(2) The existence of this plan can be seen from the fact that things are the way they are.
	www.godlessgeeks.com /LINKS/GodProof.htm (8042 words)

	Wikitravel:FAQ - Wikitravel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		It's strange, and it doesn't make a lot of sense, but it just happens.
		Do you have any proof that this works?
		Well, we have the existence proof of other projects that create references collaboratively.
	wikitravel.org /en/Wikitravel:FAQ (1522 words)

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		=: function[T, T -> bool]] USING intervals_tcc[T, a, b, intervals_tcc_proofs.>=] PROOF closed_TCC1_PROOF: PROVE closed_TCC1 {x
		= T_ZERO + Corr(p, 0) nonfx: LEMMA nonfaulty(p, i + 1) IMPLIES nonfaulty(p, i) S1A_lemma: LEMMA S1A(i + 1) IMPLIES S1A(i) PROOF i2R: LEMMA T_sup(i + 2) = T_sup(i) + 2 * R i2R_proof: PROVE i2R FROM T_sup {i
		number : x + F(qq) - (y + G(qq)))) PROOF mean_lemma_proof: PROVE mean_lemma FROM mean, sum (* ------------------------------------------------------------------ *) split_sum_proof: PROVE split_sum FROM sum, sum {j
	shemesh.larc.nasa.gov /fm/ftp/sri/specs/ica.dump (1503 words)

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