Meaning & use
Ens
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In philosophy, a being or entity; something that exists, considered in the abstract.
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Medieval philosophers debated whether God could be described as the ens necessarium, the necessary being.
The lecture opened with a discussion of ens and its relation to essence.
A note on using this word
Ens is the Latin present participle of 'to be,' adopted directly into English philosophical vocabulary and still used mainly in metaphysics.
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