Rand's expression of this concept in propositional form, as the axiom that "existence exists," is intended not as the mere tautological observation that "whatever exists, exists," but rather as a recognition that something does indeed exist.
Alexander was not so shy, saying he believed "everything that exists exists because of the will of God" and that God resided "outside the space-time continuum".
A film image is created by light that leaves a material trace of something that exists — existed — in real time and space.
He tells us that everything that exists exists because substances exist: if there were no substances, there would not be anything else.
As Auriol writes: "every thing, insofar as it exists, exists as a singular" (omnis res, eo quod est, singulariter est).
In fact, Newton accepted the principle that everything that exists, exists somewhere — i.e., in absolute space.
First, its conclusion is very strong: it says that any entity that in fact exists or that could have existed exists necessarily.
Thus Arthur Prior's remark in [1957] (p. 48) that classical quantified modal logic (effectively, SQML) is "haunted by the myth that whatever exists exists necessarily".
