Whitehead contends that the human way of understanding existence as a unity of interlocking and interdependent processes which constitute each other and which cause each other to be and not to be is possible only because the basic form of such an understanding, for all its vagueness and tendency to mistake the detail, is initially given in the way man feels the world.

The existence of a community is a state of mind -- a conviction that goals and values are widely shared, that effective communication is possible, that mutual trust is reasonably assured.

The existence of road systems permits an intensity of management and use for all National Forest purposes that is not otherwise possible.

With the existence of these many factors, some of them variable, it obviously has never been and is not now possible for the Commission to make assignments of AM stations on a case-to-case basis which will insure against any interference in any circumstances.

With the existence of an alpha channel, it is possible to express compositing image operations, using a compositing algebra.

An analogy of proportion is therefore possible: " essence is related to existence as potency is related to act.

Being is quite conceivable apart from actual existence ; so much so that the very first and the most universal of all the distinctions in the realm of being is that which divides it into two classes, that of the real and that of the possible.

In other words, it is quite possible that actual existence may be ... an efficient cause of observable effects ...." He then launches into a history of attempts to conceptualize the inconceivable from the ancient Greeks to the present.

* Dené – Caucasian superfamily: Based on the possible Caucasian link, some linguists, for example John Bengtson and Merritt Ruhlen, have proposed including Basque in the Dené – Caucasian superfamily of languages, but this proposed superfamily includes languages from North America and Eurasia, and its existence is highly controversial.

The only clues for its possible existence are Persian inscriptions that refer to two places called " Saparda ": one area in Media and another in Asia Minor, debated to be Sardis.

Although there is disagreement as to whether the dynasty actually existed, there is some archaeological evidence pointing to its possible existence.

Eddington was aware that the existence of black holes was theoretically possible, and also realized that the existence of the limit made their formation possible.

Backed by the Power Gem, it is possible to access all minds in existence simultaneously.

Kant also argued that existence is not a " real " predicate, but gave no explanation of how this is possible.

Knowledge of essences would only be possible by " bracketing " all assumptions about the existence of an external world.

The possible existence of primitive ( microbial ) life outside of Earth is much less controversial to mainstream scientists, although, at present, no direct evidence of such life has been found.

The Epistle to the Laodiceans is a possible lost letter of Paul, the original existence of which is inferred from an instruction to the church in Colossae to send their letter to the church in Laodicea, and likewise obtain a copy of the letter " from Laodicea " ( Greek ek laodikeas ἐκ Λαοδικείας ).

This tension emerged when Andreotti revealed the existence of Gladio, a stay-behind organization with the official aim of countering a possible Soviet invasion through sabotage and guerrilla warfare behind enemy lines.

I don't say that the argument begs the questions of ... possible existence ; the charge is too difficult to establish.

Given the existence of a Godlike object in one world, proven above, we may conclude that there is a Godlike object in every possible world, as required.

From these hypotheses, it is also possible to prove that there is only one God in each world by Leibniz's law, the identity of indiscernibles: two or more objects are identical ( are one and the same ) if they have all their properties in common, and so, there would only be one object in each world that possesses property G. Gödel did not attempt to do so however, as he purposely limited his proof to the issue of existence, rather than uniqueness.

The United States can help by communicating a genuine concern with the problems these countries face and a readiness to provide technical and other appropriate forms of assistance where possible.

As a third issue, philosophers who dispute the validity of the Turing test may feel that it is possible, at least in principle, for verbal report to be dissociated from consciousness entirely: a philosophical zombie may give detailed verbal reports of awareness in the absence of any genuine awareness.

These were partly the result of the tireless travels he had begun in 1839 in search of unread manuscripts of the New Testament, " to clear up in this way ," he wrote, " the history of the sacred text, and to recover if possible the genuine apostolic text which is the foundation of our faith.

Advocates of free-market socialism, such as Jaroslav Vanek, argue that genuine free markets are not possible under conditions of private ownership over productive property because the class differences and inequalities in income and power that ensue from this arrangement enable interests of the dominant class to skew the market to their favor, either in the form of monopoly and market power, or by utilizing their wealth and resources to pass government regulations and policies that benefit their specific business interests.

Because Agfa-Gevaert still produce photographic films for the aerial photography market, it is still possible to buy genuine, fresh, Agfa-produced photographic films for use in consumer cameras.

In this he contends that only the Epistle to Galatians, First and Second Epistle to the Corinthians and Epistle to the Romans are genuinely Pauline, and that the Paul of the Acts of the Apostles is a different person from the Paul of these genuine Epistles, the author being a Paulinist who, with an eye to the different parties in the Church, is at pains to represent Peter as far as possible as a Paulinist and Paul as far as possible as a Petrinist.

He also followed positivism in his insistence that it was only possible to have genuine knowledge of phenomena and hence that it was idle to speculate about the nature of the ultimate reality.

Analyses ranges from Michael Hogan's belief that NSC-68 portrayed the threat " in the worst light possible " to providing an accurate picture of a genuine and growing threat.

If Bazna passed over genuine target information from the British ambassador's safe, it is possible that this was provided in order to build up his reputation so that later false information about something much more important could be fed through the same channel.

The carnival creates the " threshold " situations where regular conventions are broken or reversed and genuine dialogue becomes possible.

Thus it is possible to have a genuine user with the correct knock let through the firewall even in the middle of a port attack from multiple IP's ( assuming the bandwidth of the firewall is not completely swamped ).

Yet it is possible for our eyes to fill with tears and for there still to be no real worship simply because we have not come to a genuine awareness of God and a fuller praise of Himself in His nature and ways ...

An additional 6 Sri Lankans had been found to be genuine refugees but had wrongly been charged with sexual assault ; those charges were dropped in January 2008, making it possible for the six men to be resettled in Australia ( pending standard health and character checks ).

A moderate Cessationist would insist that the new charismatic period is possible only during the Great Tribulation for otherwise the genuine gifts would be in operation before the Tribulation, and, thus, charismatic gifts could not be rejected on grounds of principle.

On 23 June Fitzwilliam wrote to the Duke of Portland that he believed the government had moved to the Whig position and that " for my own part I am now ready, not only to adopt the opinion that a junction should take place, as your sentiment, but to advise it as the genuine offspring of my own judgement ... only condition was that as much weight and sway should be given to us as possible.

The Party boss in Upper Silesia, Edward Gierek, who unlike most of the Communist leaders was a genuine product of the working class, also emerged as a possible alternative leader.

Some, possibly apocryphal, sources attribute the use of genuine parachute nylon having been cut to make such trousers possible.

Criticized for being based on Li's memory and a recreation of his journals in 1977 ( the originals were destroyed during the Cultural Revolution out of fear for their possible impact on Li or his family ), the review stated that despite this weakness there is " no obvious reason to doubt that Dr. Li is genuine and that his book represents a reasonable effort to record his experiences " and its credibility was enhanced for being edited and reviewed by scholars of Chinese history.

While it is possible to single out specific texts which can be strongly argued to encapsulate genuine echoes or resonances of the pre-Christian past, opinion is divided as to whether these texts contain substantive material derived from oral tradition as preserved by bards or whether they were the creation of the medieval monastic tradition.

* TIBC should be high in genuine iron deficiency, reflecting efforts by the body to produce more transferrin and bind up as much iron as possible ; TIBC should be low or normal in anemia of chronic disease.

No possible world is identical with any Quinean ersatz world, but for every such ersatz world there is a genuine possible world.