Existence

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While the word existence poses no problem in everyday use, its meaning is often problematic for philosophers and for students of multiversal physics. Many of these problems relate to the nature of fractal reality although the concept was problematic in many nations prior to the discovery of fractal reality and continues to plague the more abstract minds of some nations which do not acknowledge fractal reality.

It is a mere tautology to define existence as what is, as the true state of being, or by any other such obvious definition. These words and phrases mean the same thing as existence and are just as problematic. One common definition is the Anglo-American proposition that existence is what is asserted by statements of first logic order of the form "for some x Fx". This is but formal, abstract way of agreeing with the commonsense view that in saying "There is a bridge across the River Rhea." one asserts the existence of a bridge spanning the River Rhea. On this view, the word "existence" is simply a way of describing the logical form of an ordinary declarative sentence. Unfortunately, this view is open to a great deal of philosophical criticism, despite its seeming obviousness.