INTERLUDE

A  REMINDER OF THE GRAMMATICAL STATUS OF "BE" AND "EXIST" IN MODERN ENGLISH.

Be is a transitive verb which requires an object - 'To be a bus conductor.' The infinitive bespeaks of movement towards or attainment of some other state.

Exist-  is intransitive verb which requires no such object because the very ontological nature of Exist- is not predicational as Kant pointed out a long time ago.

Exist- intransitive verb.

1. Have a place as part of objective reality.

2. [a] Have being under specified conditions. [b]. (Followed by as) exist in the form of.

3. (Of circumstances etc.) occur; be found.

4. Live with no pleasure under adverse conditions (felt he was merely existing).

5. Continue in being; maintain life (can hardly exist on this salary).

6. Be alive, live.

[Probably a back-formation from existence; cf. Late Latin existere]

Comparing Exist- - intransitive with Be - transitive.

Why has BE developed as a transitive lexeme rather than an intransitive one? The answer is an obvious one in that BE and all its fellow conjugations function as a predicational enablers that attribute the specific modalic nature of an entity and not the instantiation of its objective reality.

1. Exist- - have a place as part of ubietic objective reality.    The sun Exist- Compare "The sun does not Exist-

1a.  To be - have a place as part of objective reality.    The sun be-eze,* *(the sun is.)* (Compare "The sun does not be."

In the above sentence 1 Exist- speaks of the place of the sun as being present as part of objective reality. Sentence 2a. attempts to do the same but fails, because of the fact that "be” attributes a predicational state and therefore requires an object: ("The sun is shining," or dialect: "The sun be shining." but not: "The sun is.")

2.    Exist- in the form of something - Exist- ubietically as an elephant. (Compare: "Not to exist as an elephant.)

2a.  To be in the form of something - to be as an elephant.  (Compare: "Not to be as an elephant.)

In sentence 2. " Exist- as an elephant," means to be present in the cosmos ubietically in the shape, form and nature of the animal that we know as an elephant. "To be as an elephant," however 2a. has the meaning of to perform like an elephant or to imitate the appearance or behaviour of an elephant.

3.    Exist- (of circumstances etc.) to occur; to be found. Fish are known Exist- in the pond. (Compare: "Fish are known not Exist- in the pond."

3a.  To be   (of circumstances etc.) to occur; to be found.  (Compare: "Fish are known not to be in the pond."

Sentence 3. speaks of the fact that fish are known as present and   having a place as part of objective reality in the pond, whilst sentence 3a. addresses the existential modality of the fish as existing in the pond.

4.     Exist- ubietically  with no pleasure under adverse conditions ("He felt he was merely existing.")

4a.   To be with no pleasure under adverse conditions ("He felt he was merely being.")

Sentence 4. speaks of the person being deprived of the existential modalities of pleasure and being merely modelessly present in a certain place, whilst 4a. is nonfunctional because of the missing predicate required by the transitive particle "being." (Compare: "He felt he was not merely existing." against: "He felt he was merely being WHAT? - He felt he was not merely being WHAT?")

5.     To continue in existing; to maintain life ("I can exist on this salary.")

5a.   To continue in being; to maintain life ("I can be on this salary.") *

Sentence 5. speaks of simple presence and relates that to the money required to maintain this entitative state or existing rather than not existing, whilst to continue being requires a predicational state to move towards or attain or achieve.  (Compare: I cannot exist on this salary," against: "I can be WHAT on this salary?") - "I cannot be WHAT on this salary?")

6.      Exist- alive* - to live.

6a.    To be alive - to live.

Sentence 6. demonstrates that the word Exist-  does not require an existential modality [such as living in order to make sense, whilst sentence 6a. "To be alive" demonstrates that the transitivity of the BE-word demands a predicational ongoing modality of essivity or ubietic behaviour, in this case of “aliveness,” to attribute to a entity, for without one "To be" alone is meaningless, whilst " Exist- has meaning as presupposing a comprehensively, all-inclusive modalically intransitive entity being present in a spatial sense; being or existing in a specified place and not requiring a predicational modalic characterisation such as “alive” or any other such existential state or manner of existing.