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existential
1. Philosophy pertaining to what exists, and is thus known by experience rather than reason; empirical as opposed to theoretical
2. Logic denoting or relating to a formula or proposition asserting the existence of at least one object fulfilling a given condition; containing an existential quantifier
3. Logic an existential statement or formula short for existential quantifier


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The titular question refers not to ideas about evolution, species differentiation, or the division of the world's human population into fallacious categories but rather to the more typical existential dilemma of the preschooler wondering What It's All About: "Is the race like a loop / or an obstacle course?
Wednesday: There's an existential void in the universe .
Middle-aged day-trader Richard Novak is detached and alone and having an existential crisis.
 
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