Entity

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An entity is something that exists. In its broadest sense, the concept is the most general category of being and encompasses anything that is identifiable, including living beings, inanimate objects, places, events, ideas, numbers, properties, and relations. It is controversial whether empty space and absences, such as holes or shadows, are also entities or should be regarded as nonentities. The words object, thing, and being are often treated as synonyms for entity, but they have distinct connotations and are not always interchangeable. Various fundamental types of entities have been proposed, but it is disputed whether they are all part of reality. Particulars are individual, nonrepeatable entities, such as a specific apple. They contrast with universals, which are general entities that can express repeatable features of particulars, such as the color red. Concrete entities exist in space and time and causally interact, such as a cat, which is not the case for abstract entities, such...

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