Existentialism

There are more things in this World Horatio, than are dreamed of in your philosophies Shakespeare Definitions from Oxford Languages · Learn more: adjective relating to existence. "The climate crisis is an existential threat to the world." PHILOSOPHY concerned with existence, especially human existence as viewed in the theories of existentialism. "The existential dilemma is this: because we are free, we are also inherently responsible." LOGIC (of a proposition) affirming or implying the existence of a thing. the existential proposition that truth and reality are constructed fictions" Even physicists struggle with truth. Reality in the laws of physics repeatedly give way to new findings. The James Webb Telescope finds galaxies beyond the time and space of the established Universe. Anthropologists find evidence of civilizations earlier than documented history. What is truth? The use of the word existential as a syndrome for virtual truth begs the question of reality. The philosophy of truth and reality as a construct of individual experience defines a low level of evidence-based open inquiry. Can truth be quantitative? Scientists regard reality on theoretical levels: speculation, conjecture, hypothesis, theory, and, only reluctantly, laws of nature. Politically, we might rank truth quantitatively as dam lies, lies, mendacity, mass delusion, hysteria, the Media, existential, evidence-based, and outcome. The place for existential rests more on whose it is than on this scale, making it even more nebulous.