Subsistence  

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"After wandering in Meinong's jungle of subsistence ... philosophers are now agreed that propositions cannot be regarded as ultimate entities".--Probability and Induction (1949) by William C. Kneale


"Children growing, women producing / Men go work and some go stealing / Everyone's got to make a living / Heaven and hell is on earth" --"Heaven & Hell Is On Earth" (1975)

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  1. Real being; existence.
  2. The act of maintaining oneself at a minimum level.
  3. Inherency.
  4. Embodiment or personification or hypostasis of an underlying principle or quality.

Etymology

From Late Latin subsistentia (“substance, reality, in Medieval Latin also stability”), from Latin subsistens, present participle of subsistere (“to continue, subsist”). See subsist.

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