Meanings
- not comparablehuman sciencesCapable of existence.
That all Corporeal and Sensible Perfections, are in some Analogous way, Existible, in the Humane Mind.
1701, Nehemiah Grew, Cosmologia Sacra, page 1192 more examples
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 21A 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
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