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Quote by: Morality Games  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). | "Existence" may have been originally used to describe material reality but that is only because pre-plato no one thought of transcendent idealistic reality (with the exception of Anaxagoras' Nous but I would hardly call it a worked out non-material entity). You seem to be saying that existence and cosmos are the same.
It seems to me the typical use of the word existence means that the objects has being.
"...all life is an experiment. Every year, if not every day, we have to wager our salvation upon some prophecy based upon imperfect knowledge." -Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr |