Being
In modern English usage, being means conscious entity. (See also I think, therefore I am.) While this clearly includes all animal life and any spirit beings that might exist, there is currently no conclusive scientific evidence as to whether or not plants, minerals or viruses are conscious.
In the more general philosophical sense, a being is anything that can be said to 'be' in various senses of the word 'be.' 'Be' is a word, like many other words, that has different senses. So there are different senses of the word "be," and accordingly, one might say, there are different "kinds" of beings, or ways of being.
Aristotle is famous for having distinguished various sorts of beings. See category of being.
For philosophic consideration of the nature "being" in a verbal sense, see ontology.
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library.
"Are you busy, Hugh?" she asked.
I put down my newspapers.
"Because," she went on, as she took a chair near the table where I was
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"To Europe!" I exclaimed. The significance of the announcement failed at
rising within me, she was extraordinarily calm, unbelievably so.
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"I shall go to London for a month or so, and after that to some quiet
and German. After that, I have no plans."
"But--you talk as if you might stay indefinitely."
"I haven't decided," she repeated.
"But why--why are you doing this?"
I would have recalled the words as soon as I had spoken them. There was
as a little painful? Surely, going to Europe without one's husband is
want to go, that the children have arrived at an age when it will do them
with a silent calm which was incomprehensible. In vain I summoned my
full sense of the inadequacy of the remark, and a suspicion of its
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a terrible mistake. I began to realize that after we had been married a
inexperienced--perhaps too weak to acknowledge it to myself. In the last
hadn't. I am not your wife in any real sense of the word, I cannot hold
self-respect can endure."
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She flushed a little, but otherwise retained her remarkable composure.
"I don't care whether they are 'modern' or not, I only know that my
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