What is really meant by the verb "to be"?

Question: What is really meant by the verb "to be"!?

what do i mean when i say "I am"!?!.!.!.!.!.!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

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to experience - it is all we have!.

Ultimately, you may be the watcher of the movie of your life!. But that's just a symbolic void - no one ever goes there, not even Buddhas!.

So for all intents and purposes you are what you experience!.

Where it gets interesting is in questioning what is the true nature of experience, and how do our perceptions arise!?Www@QuestionHome@Com

It is the transitive verb, such that it solely links a subject to a predicate!. That is, it links without denoting any particular action!. Subjects point to things in the physical and mental worlds, and predicates point to things about the things!. They qualify the things about the world!. Things correspond to subjects as things about the things correspond to predicates!. This assumes meaningful language, such that it points to reality, however accurately!. Okay!.

Now, we could say that anything that links subject to predicate establishes some state of affairs concerning a subject, that state of affairs being the predicate!. Well, this linking can go in one of two ways!. Either it does only what we've been discussing, it just links, or it in itself can denote some action!.

So let's consider all this!. We can say one of two relevant kinds of things about a thing in the world!. We can point it out as involved in some sort of action, or change!. Or, we can point out some state of affairs about it, and that's it!. No action!. In this case, our link directly statically points to some state of affairs concerning the thing in the world!. It says, "this thing in the world exists in the following state of affairs," or, "this state of affairs characterizes this thing in the world!."

That's what "to be" means!.

"I am!?" The subject refers to you as a thing in the world, and with you uttering it, you simply use language to refer to yourself!. No big deal!. "Am" conjugates from "to be," therefore in a statement using "I am" you mean that some state of affairs characterizes you, or that you exist in some given state of affairs, such that the predicate delineates that state of affairs, however accurately!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

i guess its just a being verb!. i was soooo confused when in spanish my teacher said the verb ser means to be!. i was like to be what!?! who would say that!? that had me confused for the longest, then he finally made himself clear and said to be means i am!. i guess he thought all my english teachers had explained that to me!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

that's what we called "to be or not to be"
I am!.!.!. = the person (I) to be!.!.!.
I am not!.!.!. = the person (I) not to be!.!.!.

am/was = represent the intentions at the time it existsWww@QuestionHome@Com

When you say " I am", you say "I exist as", as in, "I am a man", or, "I am tired"!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

To be is now!.

I am was/is and will be!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

I am singular!. All That Is made not two of us alike

I AM part of All That ISWww@QuestionHome@Com