The phrase "as things existing" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing the nature of reality, existence, or the state of being of objects or concepts.
Example: "Philosophers often debate the implications of understanding reality as things existing rather than as mere perceptions."
Alternatives: "in terms of existence" or "regarding entities that exist".
Monsters being created as explanations of things existing on the cusp of human understanding.
God, the divine Not-Other, is causally responsible for things' existing as separate and self-identical others.
It is clear how we could say something like this about things existing merely by the force of convention, such as the objects traded on the stock market.
A definition of a thing as having such and such properties does not commit us to the thing existing with those properties, even if one of those properties is said to be existence.
To qualify as an HD set, a television must be capable of displaying both 1080i and 720p signals, as well as existing formats.But then things get more confusing.
They explained that universals could be considered as concepts (universals post rem—'following the thing'), as intrinsic to bodily things (universals in re—'in the thing') and as really existing and separate from bodies (universals ante rem—'before the thing').
Our experience has so formed our habits of expectation that we not only form the conception of those things as existing when they were not being perceived but firmly believe them so to exist.
If one is capable of conceiving of things as existing or not existing in any way whatsoever, then one cannot have a true, nonconceptual realization of the way things really are.
Replies to this sort of objection have typically questioned whether it makes sense to think of an island (a physical thing) as existing necessarily or as having maximal excellence on a par with God.
To be red (or even to be an apple) it must already exist, as only existing things instantiate properties.
