coexistence
noun
the act or state of coexisting.
coexistences
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pluralof coexistence.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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In the first place, sequences and coexistences are not only asserted respecting Phenomena; we make propositions also respecting those hidden causes of phenomena, which are named substances and attributes.
From A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive (Vol. 1 of 2) by John Stuart Mill
Now, the most extensive in its subject-matter of all generalizations which experience warrants, respecting the sequences and coexistences of phenomena, is the law of causation.
From A System of Logic: Ratiocinative and Inductive 7th Edition, Vol. II by John Stuart Mill
And it cannot be doubted that between phenomena which are themselves effects, the coexistences must necessarily depend on the causes of those phenomena.
From A System of Logic: Ratiocinative and Inductive 7th Edition, Vol. II by John Stuart Mill
Among the coexistences and sequences there is an order which we can detect, and a few thinkers are inclined to maintain that this is the whole story.
From Through Nature to God by John Fiske
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.
From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 14 — Philosophy and Economics by Sir John Alexander Hammerton
