This is one significant difference between fiction and existence.

Thus, the choices that these parties make can spell the difference between existence and extinction.

Both imply the denial of any real distinction between essence and existence.

"My story is stripped down to its bare essentials: between existence and nonexistence," he tells us.

Distinction is drawn between existence of licence and its ceasing to have effect.

But, he insisted, the concept of a 'necessarily existent Being' rests on a confusion between existence and attributes.

The analogy is said of being in many different ways, but the key to it is the real distinction between existence and essence.

But you have to differentiate between normal existence and the life-vital aspects of spaceflight in this case.

But Etain had to choose between bodily existence in the land of mortals and everlasting life.

As explained above, some philosophers draw a distinction between reality and existence.