# Subsistence A concept developed by Danish philosopher Alexander Wrede Elung for the pre-relational that, through it still only being virtual and lacking potent relations, cannot be attributed any *existence*. Subsisting virtualities are thus the implicate order before an emergence and its radical relationalism converts them into existing potentialities that then are negated into actualities. The latter are within physics called fields and particles respectively where the continuous becomes discrete. To the extent an existence is considered to express itself as a *substance* we can also play with the idea that a subsistence may express itself as an exceptionally virtual *hyperstance*. Please see further *V P A (virtuality -- potentiality -- actuality)*.