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Istnienie

Istnienie is a Polish noun meaning existence, the state of something being, or the fact that something exists. It is formed from the verb istnieć, “to exist,” and is used in everyday language as well as in philosophical discourse to denote the mode or status of being.

In philosophy, istnienie is a central term in ontology, the branch that studies what there is and

Historically, terms for existence traverse the long history of Western philosophy, from Aristotle’s inquiry into beings

In contemporary usage, istnienie appears in logic, linguistics, theology, and cognitive science as a way to

how
it
is.
Key
questions
include
what
it
means
for
something
to
exist,
whether
existence
is
a
property,
a
relation,
or
a
basic
category,
and
whether
there
are
different
modes
of
existence
such
as
actual,
possible,
necessary,
or
contingent.
Discussions
often
distinguish
between
existence
and
essence,
or
between
the
merely
possible
and
the
actual.
and
causes
to
contemporary
debates
in
metaphysics
and
analytic
logic.
In
the
20th
century,
continental
approaches
highlighted
human
existence
and
its
conditions
(for
example,
phenomenology
and
existentialism
with
figures
such
as
Husserl
and
Sartre,
and
Martin
Heidegger’s
concept
of
Dasein),
while
analytic
traditions
emphasized
formal
treatments
of
existence
in
models
of
logic
and
theory
of
predication.
express
that
something
possesses
being
within
a
given
framework.
It
is
a
foundational
notion
in
Polish
philosophical
writing
and
remains
a
standard
term
in
discussions
of
ontology
and
related
disciplines.