hyperexistent

comparative more hyperexistent · superlative most hyperexistent

1. Superexistent.

   Existence is of various degrees: God is truly hyperexistent, the principle of existence. On the other hand, abstract categories are less truly existent than certain other objects. It is in a hierarchy of reality that God stands at the highest.

   1932, Paul Faulkner Tjensvold, God Known by Intuition, A.B. University of California, page 88

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   Here the Dionysian vocabulary is convoluted and abstract (“the Transcendent One in a transcending way” is literally “the hyperexistent hyperexistently”) and yet also personal and participatory, for the point is “to praise” this transcendent One transcendingly. In this chapter, in the next one on his other works, and throughout his other longest work The Divine Names, Dionysius consistently and prominently features the language of praise, literally, “to hymn.”

   2015, Paul Rorem, The Dionysian Mystical Theology, Fortress Press, →ISBN, page 23

   Popularly and sociologically, "many people" can be hypostatized as a hyperexistent entity. John Locke provided an early statement of this idea, describing society as "made up of many particular substances considered together, as countered into one idea, and which so joined are looked on as one" (1900 [1689]: 183). As Strathern suggested for relation, perhaps this abstract idea was then applied down to the level of a family of three. This threesome can figure, in the "many-as-One" register, as a supraidividual that, like a single person, is perceived as able to do and say this or that (the family is happy, buys a house, goes on a holiday, etc.). It can figure as three individuals or three dyadic relations or Family (the capital letter denotes the reification) — just as a large, delimtied body of people can figure as a multitude of individuals or multiple dyadic relations or Society. The arithmetic ontological jump from two to One drew the attention of turn-of-the-twentieth-century philosopher and sociologist Georg Simmel. He Proposed that the dyad is a basic and irreducible form, but once a third person joins the dyad, "societalization" begins. There emerges a completely new figure, a social whole, a "we" that obtains hyperexistent life, independent of the individuals that compose it, characterized by part-to-whole relations.

   2017, Nurit Bird-David, Us, Relatives: Scaling and Plural Life in a Forager World, University of California Press, →ISBN, page 19