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How is that? Many philosophers have contended anything that transcends space-time has more being (e.g. Plato, Aristotle, Plotinus, Augustine, Kant, ect.)
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Terms like 'existence' were initially developed and employed for the sake of describing the tangible realities of the everyday world, or empirical processes. 'Existence', or whatever ancient utterances equate with it, meant 'world', or the 'particulars that comprise the world', and nothing else. This remains the typical meaning of 'existence' and like terms in ordinary conversation. However, the discourse has been polluted somewhat by the idea that existence can refer to things outside the world too, although there is no firm scientific basis that this should be the case (that there are realities outside the world).