What is a thing?

Question

or, what is being, or what is being qua being (being as being)?

Answer 1

Being is NOT in the mind.
ffs, how olde is this error?

Transcendental realism -- that we can't EVER get to the 'outside' REALITY is in tandem with this empirical idealism: thoughts in our minds are only representations of the real...........

Kant. ***** KANT! 200+ years ago gives better answers than you dumbasses who can only regurgitate the most deadend absurd "commonsense" bullshit philosophy.

Being is before the cogito, before the quantized subject corresponding with objects. It isn't a parmenidean totality with no change. Being is US, what is at issue FOR US, the horizon on which we disclose being in its being through care for that which concerns us...... that there is something rather than nothing. Living by and with instead of against and at.

Man of "enlightnement age," man or resignation will never understand as long as he clings to his religious dogmatism. I might as well speak of juggling pink dinosaurs in outer space.

Answer 2

A "thing" is as every thing is: an illusion. An elusory concept of a nonexistant being, or state.

This is not to be circular speech:

I believe that the universe is infinite. But this means that everything must exist everywhere at all times. (see A, B, C's of an Infinite Universe) I'm sorry, I know I posted this address yesterday. I'm not adverstising. I've just found new interest in an old topic!

That means that we live IN the singularity, not "after" it. This, in turn, means that nothing you know to be true is possible, therefore it must be an illusion. Either that or God gave us some really good drugs that made us forget how to understand. I'd vote for the former.

Answer 3

A "thing" is an object in consciousness. Any entity that can be perceived, whether measurable or not--ranging from the smallest Quantum particle, to the Entire Cosmos.

Distinguish a related but separate word/phrase: the idea or concept of a thing, which might or might not correspond with any real entity "out there".

The only REAL thing is Everything, an Absolute Singularity, because all of the smaller things are temporary or mutable. Quanta go in and out of existence; and all matter and energy entities change form over time. And even Space and Time are only in consciousness.

Basically, the only real thing is GOD, or Infinite Awareness.

Answer 4

Being is the present moment. Using the word "being" objectively is refering to the present state of the object.

Answer 5

In the wide sense, any object of thought is a thing.
In the narrow sense, any tangible object - object that can be seen and touched or the effect thereof can be seen or touched, heard, tasted or smelled - is a thing.

Answer 6

A "thing" is ...An entity, an idea, or a quality perceived, known, or thought to have its own existence. And "being" is ...To exist in actuality; have life or reality...there you go

Answer 7

A cognizant, self-aware life-form, a consciousness.

Answer 8

A part of a group of things.

Answer 9

Depends on what the thing is/was in its original form

Answer 10

noun