The phrase "there exists something" is perfectly correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you want to express that something is true or present. For example, "There exists something exciting about a new beginning."
For instance, the principle of identity, Everything is identical to itself entails There exists something that is identical to itself.
On the other hand, some constructions may share some syntactic features with the existential, but they should not be regarded as such: Lei (1993) lists three conditions for a clause to be called an existential: 1) Semantically, it asserts the existence of something, that is, there exists something (New) in someplace (Given).
Benson Mates, for example, has declared: "Ultimately the only basis I can have for a claim to know that there exists something other than my own perceptions is the nature of those very perceptions.
From a distance of half…"}]} If you are the kind of person who, upon hearing that there exists something called "buffalo cheese curds," can think of nothing else until you eat them, then Murray's Cheese Bar is for you.
For an actualist, from the fact that there might have been aliens (◇∃xAx), BF entails that there exists something that could have been an Alien (∃x◇Ax).
In neither case can we infer that there exists something Vladimir is thinking about, or that there is exists something he is experiencing.
Older readers may remember a time when there existed something called "mainstream" fiction.
The report revealed that Mazzini's mail had indeed been opened and that there existed something called the Secret Department of the Post Office.
When I started here, I had no idea that there existed something called chromatin, [or] what transcription factors did," he adds.
As great as the giant weeping willow was, as intimate a part it had played in my life, as much as I loved it, there existed something far greater, something suddenly far more intimate, something new I loved far more.
"The club 'holds its hands up' in full acceptance that this situation has been allowed to escalate, and realises that football clubs in general understand that there now exists something of a zero tolerance relationship between them and HMRC.
