Sosa's working definition of existential relativism: "that what exists relative to our present scheme "O" is what it recognizes directly, what it recognizes indirectly through its predecessors or successors, and what it "would" recognize if we had developed appropriately or were to do so now, and had been or were to be appropriately situated." This definition allows for objects to exist if a conceptual scheme recognizes them, recognizes something that entails another object's existence, or would have recognized them if people had different capacities or spatiotemporal locations.