Associations to the word «Existential»

EXISTENTIAL, adjective. Of, or relating to existence.

EXISTENTIAL, adjective. Based on experience; empirical.

EXISTENTIAL, adjective. (philosophy) Of, or relating to existentialism.

EXISTENTIAL, adjective. (linguistics) Relating to part of a clause that indicates existence, e.g. "there is".

EXISTENTIAL CRISIS, noun. (existentialism) A state of panic or feeling of intense psychological discomfort about questions of existence.

EXISTENTIAL INSTANTIATION, noun. (logic) In predicate logic, an inference rule of the form ∃x P(x) ⊢ P(c), where c is a new symbol (not part of the original domain of discourse, but which can stand for an element of it (as in Skolemization)).

EXISTENTIAL NIHILISM, noun. The philosophical theory that life has no intrinsic meaning or value.

EXISTENTIAL QUANTIFIER, noun. (logic) The operator, represented by the symbol ∃, used in predicate calculus to indicate that a predicate is true for at least one member of a specified set. Verbal equivalents include "there exists" and "there is".

EXISTENTIAL, adjective. Derived from experience or the experience of existence; "the rich experiential content of the teachings of the older philosophers"- Benjamin Farrington; "formal logicians are not concerned with existential matters"- John Dewey.

EXISTENTIAL, adjective. Of or as conceived by existentialism; "an existential moment of choice".

EXISTENTIAL, adjective. Relating to or dealing with existence (especially with human existence).