Literary notes about exists (AI summary)
In literature, the term "exists" serves as a versatile tool that spans both the concrete and the abstract. Authors often use the word to assert the tangible presence of objects or phenomena, as when Marco Polo notes that "there exists in that region a kind of wild animal" ([1]) or when fragments of a text are acknowledged to exist ([2]). At the same time, "exists" carries a deeper, more philosophical weight, underpinning debates about the nature of reality and being—for example, philosophers like Kant and Spinoza use it to affirm the necessity or contingency of entities and ideas ([3], [4]). The term also marks social and cultural turning points, suggesting that while certain institutions or ideas may have existed in the past, they may no longer hold sway in the present ([5], [6]). In this way, "exists" bridges the gap between observable fact and theoretical inquiry, inviting readers to consider questions of presence, permanence, and meaning in both the material world and the realm of ideas ([7], [8]).
- There exists in that region a kind of wild animal like a gazelle.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Marco Polo and da Pisa Rusticiano - Book 70 exists in fragments only.
— from Dio's Rome, Volume 1 by Cassius Dio Cocceianus - The object of the idea constituting the human mind is the body, in other words a certain mode of extension which actually exists, and nothing else.
— from Ethics by Benedictus de Spinoza - Consequently, there exists an absolutely necessary being.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant - The monarchy has lapsed, it no longer exists.
— from A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain - Both of these views already look quaint, and possess a value as preserving a shadow of much that no longer exists.
— from Toronto of Old by Henry Scadding - My assertion that it exists, while certainly theoretical and perhaps false, is accordingly scientific in type.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana - Knowledge is prior to any particular knowledge, and exists not in the previous state of the individual, but of the race.
— from Meno by Plato
