Subsist vs Perdure - What's the difference?
subsist | perdure |
To survive on a minimum of resources.
* Atterbury
(mostly, philosophy) To have ontological reality; to exist.
* Alexander Pope
To continue; to retain a certain state.
* Milton
to endure; especially for a great length of time
(philosophy) to exist in such a way as to possess distinct temporal parts (in perdurantism)
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As verbs the difference between subsist and perdure
is that subsist is to survive on a minimum of resources while perdure is to endure; especially for a great length of time.subsist
English
Verb
(en verb)- to subsist on other men's charity
- And makes what happiness we justly call, / Subsist not in the good of one, but all.
- Firm we subsist , yet possible to swerve.