What is an entity?

Question:That which is available for us to perceive.

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: That which is available for us to perceive.

often a ghostly presence

We all are...it's the elecrical force that is your soul...spirit...ect.ect.
We are but small electical particals in the vast universe of electrical particals, with both positive and negitive fields. Just like an atom, just like a molicule...just like the stars.

You should see the movie, The Entity (1983). In this movie starring Barbara Hershey, she plays a woman (based upon a true story of actual events) who has one teenage boy who is a mature young man and a young daughter. Apparenly there is no father around and you can tell she has been through the ringer with that. The women has a boyfriend that is a businessman, (played by Alex Rocco). One night the woman comes home and she relaxes on her bed. Suddenly this unseen force is able to touch her, put pressure on her and "rape" her. There is nobody there. Like an invisible ghost that assualted her. She eventually sees a psychiatrist complete with bruises and marks on her body she could not have done herself. This "real unseen excistence" continues to assault her again.
i won't tell you any more about the film, but it is really good.
There was a book about the actual woman and the events that took place. There were pictures in the book to offer some proof.

Oh my goodness..a ghost..lol..

en·ti·ty / Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[en-ti-tee] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation
–noun, plural -ties. 1. something that has a real existence; thing: corporeal entities.
2. being or existence, esp. when considered as distinct, independent, or self-contained: He conceived of society as composed of particular entities requiring special treatment.
3. essential nature: The entity of justice

In other words...Walmart is an entity.....a fire department is an entity...it's a being, a place on it's own.....lol, not a ghost

In Mark Prophet's "The Path of the Higher Self," a concretized energy-veiling.

Legal definition is a corporation, or anything that has distinct existence in the laws.

Philosophically, it is:
"To exist is to be something, as distinguished from the nothing of non-existence, it is to be an entity of a specific nature made of specific attributes."
Galt's Speech, For the New Intellectual, 125

"Entity: A real being; also the common element in all individuals belonging to a genus or species, which may be considered apart from the individual characteristics. Sometimes used in the sense of a vague and ill-defined reality. "
http://www.ditext.com/runes/e.html

In Michael Crichton's "The Sphere" an entity as just another individual that co-exist with humans.

It is not clearly defined because it has no person, just a force of existence, a unit with distinct existence...

Defined as the fact of existence or of being.

LANGUAGE it is self contained when we ask these questions we end up chasing our tail trying to answer because we are caught in a trap called language in a mental construct that is limited and self referenced.