ens
noun
an existing or real thing; an entity.
entia
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pluralof ens.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Purely logical distinctions are therefore seen to be a class of purely logical relations, i.e. of those entia rationis which the mind must construct for itself in its effort to understand the real.
From Ontology or the Theory of Being by Peter Coffey
And by his tendance interieure he must mean some vital or other law, equivalent to an entia in matter, which results in, not from manifestation.
From Life: Its True Genesis by R. W. Wright
All division, distinction and relation are but entia rationis.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 4 "Carnegie Andrew" to "Casus Belli" by Various
Such entities, therefore, differ from entia rationis; they, too, are real beings.
From Ontology or the Theory of Being by Peter Coffey
It follows, then, that some entia realissima are absolutely necessary beings.
From The Critique of Pure Reason by John Miller Dow Meiklejohn
