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  • noun Plural form of coexistence.

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Examples

  • The peaceful coexistences are much better choice than the wars.

    RUSSIAN INTEGRATION INTO THE EU ARE THE KEY FOR PEACE 2008

  • In fact, without this power, our knowledge of Nature would be a mere tabulation of coexistences and sequences.

    Human Traits and their Social Significance Irwin Edman

  • Its special defects are mainly those of Positivism, which denies or ignores any reality beyond external facts, and recognized no law except the successions, coexistences, and resemblances of those phenomena.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize 1840-1916 1913

  • But though the only concern of the engineer is to know how to secure useful coexistences and sequences of material masses and motions, yet the man of thought, be he physical scientist or philosopher, will rightly resent being prohibited by Positivism from prosecuting a further investigation into the rational why and wherefore of these occurrences, into the natures and properties which reason alone can discover through those phenomena.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913

  • Adding this all-important characteristic, our conception of life becomes -- the definite combination of heterogeneous changes, both simultaneous and successive, _in correspondence with external coexistences and sequences_.

    The World's Greatest Books — Volume 14 — Philosophy and Economics Various 1910

  • '"Life," he says, "is a definite combination of heterogeneous changes, both simultaneous and suc - cessive, in correspondence with external coexistences and sequences."'

    Can Such Things Be Bierce, Ambrose, 1842-1914? 1909

  • And Herbert Spencer, has this to say of this phase of the subject, "It is almost a truism to say that in proportion to the numerousness of the objects that can be distinguished, and in proportion to the variety of coexistences and sequences that can be severally responded to, must be the number and rapidity and variety of the changes within the organism -- must be the amount of vitality."

    A Series of Lessons in Raja Yoga William Walker Atkinson 1897

  • '"Life," he says, "is a definite combination of heterogeneous changes, both simultaneous and successive, in correspondence with external coexistences and sequences."'

    Can Such Things Be 1893

  • Utilitarians fall into the capital error of ignoring the intrinsic value of an act, and estimating it wholly by extrinsic results, because they commonly follow the phenomenalist philosophy, which breaks away from all such ideas as _substance_ and _nature_, and regards nothing but sequences and coexistences of phenomena.

    Moral Philosophy Joseph Rickaby 1888

  • "'Life,' he says, 'is a definite combination of heterogeneous changes, both simultaneous and successive, in correspondence with external coexistences and sequences.'"

    Can Such Things Be? Ambrose Bierce 1878

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