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being

objective and subjective features of reality and existence (philosophy)
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being

Summary

being ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (739 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • being is a type of abstract entity[2].
  • being is a type of predicate[3].
  • being is part of everything[4].
  • being's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Being[5].
  • being's described at URL is recorded as https://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Being[6].
  • being's described by source is recorded as Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 5[7].
  • being's described by source is recorded as Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[8].
  • being's partially coincident with is recorded as existence[9].
  • being's different from is recorded as being[10].
  • being's different from is recorded as being[11].
  • being's different from is recorded as being[12].
  • being's comment is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'subject is: any of the various concepts of being treated by various philosophers, inspired by Aristotle\'s treatment of being, which had to do with the meaning of "to be", where some beings were said of other beings and some beings were present in other.'}[13].
  • being's studied by is recorded as ontology[14].

Body

Definition and Type

Recorded subclass of include abstract entity[2] and predicate[3].

Use and Application

being is part of everything[4].

Why It Matters

being ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (739 views/month).[1] being has Wikipedia articles in 23 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[15] being is known by 31 alternative names across languages and contexts.[16]

Related Entities

Immanuel Kant ontology

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . newworldencyclopedia.org. newworldencyclopedia.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . Great Russian Encyclopedia. newworldencyclopedia.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [14] ↑ . Q533822. vocabularies.unesco.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [15] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [16] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 2d ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Subclass of → —
    Topic's main category → Category:Being
    Described by source → Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 5, Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)
    Part of → —
    + 8 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbeditentity-statements-single-property-update:1||2 */ [[Property:P2347]], mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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