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There is no universally accepted theory as to what the word "existence" means. Literally, it means "standing out" or "appearing". The dominant view of twentieth-century and contemporary Anglo-American philosophy is that existence is what is asserted by statements of first-order logic of the form "for some x, Fx". This agrees with the simple and commonsensical view that, in uttering "There is a bridge across the Thames at Hammersmith", or "A bridge crosses the Thames at Hammersmith", one asserts the existence of a bridge across the Thames at Hammersmith. The word "existence", in this view, is a simple way of describing the logical form of an ordinary "subject-predicate" sentence.
Unfortunately, this simplistic view is vulnerable to a number of philosophical objections, and the problem of existence is one which still exercises the minds of contemporary philosophers.
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