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Snippet from Wikipedia: Exist

Exist may refer to:

• Existence
• eXist, an open source database management system built on XML
• Existential quantification, in logic and mathematics (symbolized by ∃, read "exists")
• Energetic X-ray Survey Telescope, a proposed hard X-ray imaging all-sky deep survey mission
• Exist (album), a studio album by Exo
• Exists (band), formerly Exist, a Malaysian band
• Exists (film), a 2014 horror film
• XIST (gene) X inactive specific transcript, a gene which inactivates extra copies of X-chromosomes.

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Snippet from Wikipedia: Existence

Existence is the state of having being or reality in contrast to nonexistence and nonbeing. Existence is often contrasted with essence: the essence of an entity are its essential features or qualities, which can be understood even if one does not know whether the entity exists.

The main philosophical discipline studying existence is called ontology. According to the orthodox view, existence is a second-order property or a property of properties. For example, to say that lions exists means that the property of being a lion is instantiated. A different view holds existence is a first-order property or a property of individuals. This means existence is similar to other properties of individuals, like color and shape. Alexius Meinong and his followers accept this idea and hold not all individuals have this property; they state there are some individuals, such as Santa Claus, that do not exist. Universalists reject this view; they see existence as a universal property of every individual.

Various types of existence are discussed in academic literature. Singular existence is the existence of individual entities while general existence refers to the existence of concepts or universals. Other distinctions are between abstract and concrete existence; between possible, contingent, and necessary existence; and between physical and mental existence. A closely related issue is whether different types of entities exist in different ways or have different degrees of existence.

A key question in ontology is whether there is a reason for existence in general or why anything exists at all. The concept of existence is relevant to various fields, including logic, mathematics, epistemology, philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, and existentialism.

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