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existible (not comparable)

1. (philosophy) Capable of existence.
   • 1701, Nehemiah Grew, Cosmologia Sacra, page 119:

     That all Corporeal and Sensible Perfections, are in some Analogous way, Existible, in the Humane Mind.

   • 1890, John Rickaby, General Metaphysics, page 21:

     Similarly, when we deal with Being, it might mean an actually existent thing; or it might mean simply whatever is capable of an existence, whatever presents an actualizable content, whatever is an existible; or lastly, it might mean existence in the abstract, as when we speak of the Bing that is given to some possible essence.

   • 2015, Paul J. Glenn, An Introduction to Philosophy:

     A thing may be regarded in two ways: (1) as an existible reality, and (2) as an understandable reality.