existent
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8.1
- noun
- /ɪɡˈzɪstənt/
- Specialized
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existente
- Put roughly, all existents are "this-whats," i.e., determinate individuals.
- the only real existents
Examples
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Thesis B is one of the doctrines central to his philosophy that all phenomena are well-founded on monads, and that these monads or simple substances are the only real existents.
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For Spinoza, all mental and physical existents were temporally modified expressions of a single substance, an infinite substance that he called God or Nature.
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And this necessary existent is God.
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Yes, if it's shown that the soul exists through the Necessary Existent, then it will also be shown that it is not the Necessary Existent.
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But it can't be the existent for complicated reasons.
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Sages who searched with their heart's thought discovered the existent's kinship in the non-existent.
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Naturalism denies that there are any such causally privileged agents or entities; rather, anything that exists is entirely embedded among other existents that account for its origins and characteristics.
Academic text (2002) -
In philosophy, we often debate the nature of an existent as something that bears reality.
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For Kant, understanding an existent involves recognizing its place in the fabric of our perceptions.
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Many theories explore what it means to classify something as an existent versus non-existent.
Synonyms
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5.3
Something that exists by itself, alive or not
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Existent as a noun comes from the Latin parts ex- 'out' and sistere 'to stand', and is related to exist and existence. So an existent is simply a thing or being that 'stands out' into reality, which is why it means something that really exists rather than only an idea.