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
However complex the phenomena, all their sequences and coexistences result from the laws of the separate elements.
From A System of Logic: Ratiocinative and Inductive 7th Edition, Vol. II by John Stuart Mill
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
But it is fatal to the universality of the sequences or coexistences of effects, which compose the greater part of the derivative laws flowing from laws of causation.
From A System of Logic: Ratiocinative and Inductive 7th Edition, Vol. II by John Stuart Mill
But the observers were as ready to presume uniformity in the coexistences of facts as in the sequences.
From A System of Logic: Ratiocinative and Inductive 7th Edition, Vol. II by John Stuart Mill
