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还有,请看以下各例句,都用了to be or not to be的形式,都看不出有什么“存在于物质场所”的深义。
before wetyng of god putteth in necessite to al thinges whiche he wotte or before wotte ne thyng after eternitie, or els after any time he woll or dothe of libertie but all of necessitie, which thing if thou wene it be ayenst reason not thorowe necessitie to be or not to be, all thynge that god wot or before wot, to be or not to be, &;
(Geoffrey Chaucer, 1542)
an Axiome or sentence is that ordering of one reason with another, whereby a thing is saide to be or not to be:
(Dudley Fenner, 1584)
as finite as our knowledge is, we know contingents to be contingents: but to know that a thing meerly contingent which denomination includes only a possibilitie of comming to passe, or not comming to passe, i say to know that such a thing shall come to passe, exceedes the reach of knowledge infinite: for infinite knowledge doth extend no farther than to things knowable: but, for a contingent, which both in his owne nature, and from without doth yet continue indifferent to be or not to be, is not a thing, at all knowable, that it shall come to passe:
(William Twisse, 1631)
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