What is "existent"

Usage examples of "existent".

Very little careful examination would have sufficed to find, in the second section of the very first article of the Constitution, the names of every one of the thirteen then existent States distinctly mentioned, with the number of representatives to which each would be entitled, in case of acceding to the Constitution, until a census of their population could be taken.

But even admitting this derivation from a unity--a unity however not predicated of them in respect of their essential being--there is, surely, no reason why each of these Existents, distinct in character from every other, should not in itself stand as a separate genus.

And such a one will possess not merely the good, but the Supreme Good if, that is to say, in the realm of existents the Supreme Good can be no other than the authentically living, no other than Life in its greatest plenitude, life in which the good is present as something essential not as something brought from without, a life needing no foreign substance called in from a foreign realm, to establish it in good.

Now when we reach a One--the stationary Principle--in the tree, in the animal, in Soul, in the All--we have in every case the most powerful, the precious element: when we come to the One in the Authentically Existent Beings--their Principle and source and potentiality--shall we lose confidence and suspect it of being-nothing?

Assuming that the divine and the authentically existent possesses a life beneficent and wise, we take the next step and begin with working out the nature of our own soul.

We will have to examine this Nature, the Intellectual, which our reasoning identifies as the authentically existent and the veritable essential: but first we must take another path and make certain that such a principle does necessarily exist.

Clearly, as authentic Intellection, it has authentic intellection of the authentically existent, and establishes their existence.

Supreme Good if, that is to say, in the realm of existents the Supreme Good can be no other than the authentically living, no other than Life in its greatest plenitude, life in which the good is present as something essential not as something brought from without, a life needing no foreign substance called in from a foreign realm, to establish it in good.

Existents and the principles of the Existents, whether they have entailed an infinite or a finite number, bodily or bodiless, or even supposed the Composite to be the Authentic Existent, may well be considered separately with the help of the criticisms made by the ancients upon them.

The various speculations on the subject of the Existents and the principles of the Existents, whether they have entailed an infinite or a finite number, bodily or bodiless, or even supposed the Composite to be the Authentic Existent, may well be considered separately with the help of the criticisms made by the ancients upon them.

Hence the political demand is that the existent fact of capitalist production be recognized juridically and that all workers be given the full rights of citizenship.

If a non-existence in the sense that it is not a thing of Real-being, but belongs to some other Kind of existent, we have still two Principles, one referring directly to the substratum, the other merely exhibiting the relation of the Privation to other things.

If instead of moving outward it remained with the First, it would be no more than some appurtenance of that First, not a self-standing existent.

Grecian altar screen of Bishop Bisse they were struck by the traces of Norman mouldings, whilst on traversing the clerestory gallery the remains of Norman ornaments were everywhere to be found, the gallery itself being still existent at each side, returned behind the wooden coverings, up to the splays of the eastern windows.

We assert, then, a plurality of Existents, but a plurality not fortuitous and therefore a plurality deriving from a unity.