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Existence vs Hereness - What's the difference?

existence | hereness |

As nouns the difference between existence and hereness

is that existence is the state of being, existing, or occurring; beinghood while hereness is the property of being here; existence, dasein.

existence

English

(wikipedia existence)

Noun

  • The state of being, existing, or occurring; beinghood.
  • *
    • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=1 , passage=However, with the dainty volume my quondam friend sprang into fame. At the same time he cast off the chrysalis' of a commonplace ' existence .}}
  • * {{quote-magazine, year=2012, month=March-April, author=(Jeremy Bernstein)
    • , volume=100, issue=2, page=146, magazine=(American Scientist) , title= A Palette of Particles , passage=The physics of elementary particles in the 20th century was distinguished by the observation of particles whose existence had been predicted by theorists sometimes decades earlier.}}
  • Empirical reality; the substance of the physical universe. (Dictionary of Philosophy; 1968)

    • Antonyms

    * nothingness

    Derived terms

    * nonexistence

    Related terms

    * exist * aseity * existential

    hereness

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • The property of being here; existence, dasein
  • :* {{quote-book
    • , year=1954 , year_published=2008 , edition=Digitized , editor= , author=Otto Samuel , title=A Foundation of Ontology: A Critical Analysis of Nicolai Hartmann , chapter=The Relationship of Hereness Dasein citation , genre=Philosophy , publisher=Philosophical Library , isbn= , page=62 , passage=Hereness (Dasein'' ) might be perhaps be called more expediently, ''Now-Being'' (''Jetztsein ), ... }}

    See also

    * nowness