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Existential (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the formal understanding of being in general.

Existential (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠a category of philosophy that refers to acts, events, or performances such as “the they”. The they is a category of Dasein’s being that can never be removed now matter how hard we try.

The Existential (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the various characters of Dasein’s being that make up its existentiality.

The Existential (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠at once constitutive and disclosive of existence as Dasein’s being.

An Existential (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠distinguished sharply from a category. Whereas categories answer to the question of what (in the broadest sense) something is, when we come across a stranger we are more likely to ask who, not what, she is.

An Existential (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠any of the structural characters of Dasein’s being; something like a category, but about a ‘who’ rather than a ‘what’; Some examples of existentials include Being-in, being-alongside, concern, solicitude, world-hood, the They, and possibility.

An Existential (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠any of Dasein’s most general structures consisting of disposedness, understanding, discourse, fallenness.

An Existential (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠an existential structure (but not a category) constituting the fundamental ontological character of care.

An Existential (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠concerned with the human self, but (in contrast to other existentialists) only insofar as it is related, not to a self as an entity, but to being and the relation to being.

An Existential (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠constitutive of the way Dasein exists and discloses itself.