It wasn't as if he were physically present, after all.

For one thing, the principal characters are not physically present.

It wouldn't matter if she was physically present or not; he would carry her with him forever.

In legal use, it usually means a trial at which the defendant is not physically present.

He does not need to be physically present to make his mark.

Participants can organize into teams of any size and are not required to be physically present.

We will check whether she was physically present at any time.

Displacement - The ability to talk about things that are not physically present.

They see the bodily form as if it were physically present.

Then comes the second stage, where the model does not have to be physically present.