Entity

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An entity is something that has a distinct, separate existence, though it need

not be a material existence. In particular, abstractions and legal fictions are

usually regarded as entities. In general, there is also no presumption that an

entity is animate. Entities are used in system developmental models that display

communications and internal processing of, say, documents compared to order

processing.

 

An entity could be viewed as a set containing subsets. In philosophy, such sets

are said to be abstract objects.

 

Sometimes, the word entity is used in a general sense of a being, whether or not

the referent has material existence; e.g., is often referred to as an entity

with no corporeal form, such as a language. It is also often used to refer to

ghosts and other spirits. Taken further, entity sometimes refers to existence or

being itself. For example, the former U.S. diplomat George F. Kennan once said

that " the policy of the government of the United States is to seek . . . to

preserve Chinese territorial and administrative entity. "

 

The word entitative is the adjective form of the noun entity. Something that is

entitative is " considered as pure entity; abstracted from all circumstances " ,

that is, regarded as entity alone, apart from attendant circumstances.

 

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