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That is, after it is accepted that an objective reality is reflected in the mind in the form of a ‘simple existential proposition’ ( halliyyah basīṭah ), whose subject is a whatish concept and whose predicate is the concept of existence ( wujūd ) which by means of a [morphologically] derived predicate may be put in the form of the concept of ‘existent’ ( mawjūd ), so that each of these terms will be predicable of that entified reality, so that it may be said, for example, “This foreigner is human,” as it can be said, “This person is existent.” Neither of these is metaphorical from a common or literary point of view.

At the same time, from a precise philosophic point of view, it may be asked—in view of the unity and simplicity of the entified reality and the multiplicity of these concepts and aspects, which is characteristic…