Entiteetistäentiteeteistä
Entiteetistäentiteeteistä is a specialized term used in contemporary Finnish philosophy and systems theory to denote the phenomenon where an entity operates primarily as a conceptual or formal representation of other entities rather than as a constitutive object of reality itself. The word is a compound derived from “entiteetti” (entity) combined twice to emphasize the meta‑level relationship. It first appeared in the early 2000s in a series of papers by the philosopher Vesa Helander that sought to clarify the ontological status of abstract structures in mathematics and science.
The concept is typically applied to structures such as legal personhood, corporate identity, and digital avatars.
Later scholarship expanded the notion to the domain of virtual reality, where non‑living virtual agents behave