existible
adjEtymology From exist + -ible.
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Human sciences, Philosophy, Sciences Capable of existence.
- That all Corporeal and Sensible Perfections, are in some Analogous way, Existible, in the Humane Mind.1701, Nehemiah Grew, Cosmologia Sacra, page 119:
- Similarly, when we deal with Being, it might mean an actually existent thing; or it might mean simply whatever is capable of an existence, whatever presents an actualizable content, whatever is an existible; or lastly, it might mean existence in the abstract, as when we speak of the Bing that is given to some possible essence.1890, John Rickaby, General Metaphysics, page 21:
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- A thing may be regarded in two ways: (1) as an existible reality, and (2) as an understandable reality.2015, Paul J. Glenn, An Introduction to Philosophy: