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beingly en · ADJ

Etymology

From being + -ly.

Meanings

1. Of or pertaining to (one's) being or existence.
2. Existing; extant.
   • Earlier Thomas quotes Proclus in his explanation thus: "All beingly being is infinite, not according to multitude or magnitude, but according to power alone. 2003, Journal of Chinese philosophy
3. True; real; essential; actual.
   • Doesn't this question point to an experience similar to that Plato must have had in obsessively asking what the essence ("ousia"), the "truth," "the true being" or "the beingly being" of things was? 1995, William J. Richardson, Babette E. Babich, From phenomenology to thought, errancy, and desire:

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