Only a stray genius like Dylan can transform lyrics, back beat and electric guitar-playing into an existential statement, let alone a political one.

Interpretations of negative existential statements have proved more difficult.

Logicians call these statements singular existential statements, since they assert the existence of some particular thing.

How can one validly infer a universal statement from any number of existential statements?

Inductivist methodology supposed that one can somehow move from a series of singular existential statements to a universal statement.

Furthermore, negative existential statements using empty names are both true and apparently meaningful.

Note that the verb remains singular in Finnish existential statements when declaring more than one item.

These discarded tickets represent an existential statement, gone today, drowning in the gutter, but certain to return in another, even more expensive form.

She turns surliness into an existential statement of supreme negativity.

This is crystallised in his existential statement "there is only one meaning of life: the act of living it".