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Definition of Existents
1. existent [n] - See also: existent
Lexicographical Neighbors of Existents
Literary usage of Existents
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Aim and Achievements of Scientific Method: An Epistemological Essay by Thomas Percy Nunn (1907)
"I ignore this uncomplimentary reservation and assume that we are all prepared to
admit not only that they are existents of different orders, but also that ..."
2. Concepts of Philosophy by Alexander Thomas Ormond (1906)
"The world resolved itself, under analysis, into a plurality of existents, some
of these, objects, but all ejects so far as their real existence was ..."
3. The World as Imagination (series I) by Edward Douglas Fawcett (1916)
"... the supposal being that these symbols stand for relatively independent psychical
existents in Nature :— " What obtains primarily in Nature is the rule ..."
4. The Metaphysic of Experience by Shadworth Hollway Hodgson (1898)
"existents, or classes of existents, of any particular kind, or at groups of
existents which are more or less permanent, whether the existents composing them ..."
5. The Monist by Hegeler Institute (1895)
"And as our own efficient being in this experience belongs to physical nature as
well as other existents acted upon and reacting, we may legitimately infer ..."
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