Esistenti

Esistenti is the Italian plural form of the adjective esistente, meaning existing or present. In ordinary Italian it is used to describe things that exist, as in oggetti esistenti or fatti esistenti. In philosophical and logical discourse, however, esistenti can function as a nominal form to refer to beings or entities that exist within a specified domain. The phrase gli esistenti is used to distinguish actual entities from hypothetical, possible, or fictional ones; for example, in ontology discussions one may speak of the set of esistenti in a given possible world, contrasted with entità non esistenti.

The term derives from the verb esistere and shares the same root as esistenza and esistente. Its morphological form does not change between masculine and feminine in the plural, making esistenti appear in both gender contexts in practice.

In Italian translation of English philosophical literature, existents is commonly rendered as esistenti to refer to the objects of existence. Outside of scholarly contexts, esistenti is mainly an adjective and relatively uncommon as a standalone noun; more typical is to specify the noun it modifies (esistenti oggetti, esistenti entità). There is no widely recognized organization, work, or concept formally titled “Esistenti.”