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Existential adj.

Having existence. (Archaic)

Of or pertaining to, or having the character of, existentialism.

(Logic) Specifying actual existence, rather than only possibility; as, the existential operator. "Existentially as well as essentially intelligent."

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Etymology of 'Existential'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Existential" Quotes from Famous Books

... sociologically, but religiously as well. He will not be able to trust God; but because he needs to trust God, he will begin to create images of God in the context of which he will try to handle his existential problems. Thus, the foundations of a false religion may be laid in early childhood, and this false religion, as it matures, closes the person off from the truth of the gospel and keeps him from becoming an instrument of the gospel in relation to the whole world. The church ...

— Herein is Love • Reuel L. Howe

... lights picked out by attention in this nebulous continuum, and identified by names. Ideas, in the original ideal sense of the word, are indeed the only definite terms which attention can discriminate and rest upon; but the unity of these units is specious, not existential. If ideas were not logical or aesthetic essences but self-subsisting feelings, each knowing itself, they would be insulated for ever; no spirit could ever survey, recognise, or compare them; and mind would have disappeared in the analysis ...

— Some Turns of Thought in Modern Philosophy - Five Essays • George Santayana

... purpose should also know all possible worlds (in order to be able to compare them with this); in other words, we should be omniscient. It is absolutely impossible, however, to know the existence of this Being from mere concepts, because every existential proposition, that is, every proposition that affirms the existence of a being of which I frame a concept, is a synthetic proposition, that is, one by which I go beyond that conception and affirm of it more than was thought in the conception itself; namely, that this concept in the ...

— The Critique of Practical Reason • Immanuel Kant

Words linked to "Existential" : existential quantifier, empiric, existentialism, existential operator, experiential, empirical