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thing — [n1] something felt, seen, perceived affair, anything, apparatus, article, being, body, business, circumstance, commodity, concept, concern, configuration, contrivance, corporeality, creature, device, element, entity, everything, existence,… … New thesaurus
thing — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. affair, matter, circumstance; deed, act, occurrence; entity, person; possession, belonging, chattel; item, object, detail, article. See substance. II (Roget s IV) n. 1. [An object] Syn. article,… … English dictionary for students
thing — Synonyms and related words: accomplished fact, accomplishment, achievement, act, acta, action, activities, activity, adventure, affair, affairs, affection, affinity, an existence, apparatus, apparel, area, article, artifact, aspect, attire,… … Moby Thesaurus
existent — /ig zis teuhnt/, adj. 1. existing; having existence. 2. now existing. n. 3. a person or thing that exists. [1555 65; < L existent (s. of existens), prp. of existere to EXIST; see ENT] * * * … Universalium
existent — (Roget s Thesaurus II) I adjective 1. Occurring or existing in act or fact: actual, extant. See BE, REAL. 2. Having existence or life: alive, around, existing, extant, living. See LIVE. 3. In existence now: contemporary, current, existing, new,… … English dictionary for students
existent — Synonyms and related words: aboveground, actual, alive, alive and kicking, among the living, animate, animated, around, as is, being, breathing, capable of life, conscious, contemporaneous, contemporary, current, endowed with life, enlivened,… … Moby Thesaurus
Necessary Existent — The Necessary Existent is part of some versions of the Ontological argument for the existence of God, an argument used particularly in Islamic and Christian religious traditions. Like the ontological argument itself, it is in the form of an a… … Wikipedia
There ain't no such thing as a free lunch — This article is about the saying. For the computing principle, see No free lunch in search and optimization. For the group, see No Free Lunch (organization). There ain t no such thing as a free lunch (alternatively, There s no such thing as a… … Wikipedia
Ockham’s world and future — Arthur Gibson PHILOSOPHICAL BIOGRAPHY Ockham was born in about 1285, certainly before 1290, probably in the village of Ockham, Surrey, near London. If his epitaph is accurate, he died on 10 April 1347. Yet Conrad of Megenberg, when writing to… … History of philosophy
Barzakh — In Islamic eschatology, Barzakh ( ar. برزخ) is the intermediate state in which the soul of the deceased is transferred across the boundaries of the mortal realm into the spirit world and into a kind of cold sleep where the soul will rest until… … Wikipedia
