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Martin Heidegger (1969)

Die Ek-sistenz, ekstatisch gedacht, deckt sich weder inhaltlich noch der Form nach mit der existentia. Ek-sistenz bedeutet inhaltlich Hinaus-stehen in die Wahrheit des Seins. Existentia (existence) meint dagegen actualitas, Wirklichkeit im Unterschied zur bloßen Möglichkeit als Idee. Ek-sistenz nennt die Bestimmung dessen, was der Mensch im Geschick der Wahrheit ist. Existentia bleibt der Name für die Verwirklichung dessen, was etwas, in seiner Idee erscheinend, ist. ...
(Über den Humanismus, in: 2226, Platons Lehre von der Wahrheit, Bern 1947, S. 70.)

SEP (2006)

Emergence is a notorious philosophical term of art. A variety of theorists have appropriated it for their purposes ever since George Henry Lewes gave it a philosophical sense in his 1875 Problems of Life and Mind. We might roughly characterize the shared meaning thus: emergent entities (properties or substances) ‘arise’ out of more fundamental entities and yet are ‘novel’ or ‘irreducible’ with respect to them. (For example, it is sometimes said that consciousness is an emergent property of the brain.) Each of the quoted terms is slippery in its own right, and their specifications yield the varied notions of emergence that we discuss below. There has been renewed interest in emergence within discussions of the behavior of complex systems and debates over the reconcilability of mental causation, intentionality, or consciousness with physicalism.
www. – SEP, publ. Oct 23, 2006