Entity

An entity is anything except for actual emptiness. It does not have to be sentient, or physical. It can be a thought, a concept or a memory. The concept of emptiness is an entity, but emptiness itself is not.

In various paradigms, entities are often contrasted with a world beyond them, such as platonic forms and kantian noumenon and religious transcendence. There is, however, no need to conceive of a beyond or any form of ideal counterpart in order to consider the existence of entities.