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What does it mean for something to exist?

April 26, 2017Arts exist Humanities mean philosophy

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What does it mean for something to exist?

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For something to exist it has TO BE. Existence = being. Now that gets tricky for us, since we have no real being and the world, since it has no real being either. When I say that I mean that 100 years ago I did not exist and 200 years from now I will not exist. Same with rivers and mountains, there was a time when they didn’t exist and a time coming when they will not. It is called the problem of being and becoming. How can you BE anything if you are changing and becoming something else? You are not the same person you were 5 minutes ago and are different now than you will be 5 minutes hence. Aristotle / Plato (whomever you want to give the credit too) solved the problem to an extent with realism and idealism (no, the OTHER realism and idealism). The chair in your story is real NOW, before that it was an IDEAL. Either way it EXISTED. Now, the universe or God or however you plan to conceptualize it, I do not think anything exists outside of the consciousness of the universe / God. I am

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By saying something exist, it means we can perceive it by our five senses or we can deduct it by reasoning. A chair exist because we can see it touch it taste it smell it .But an electron can not be perceived we can only deduct the existence of an electron by reasoning.