Miss Rand's new formulation of this axiom is that existence is identity. In other words, to say that something exists is to say that something exists. On this view, existence is not a predicate or an attribute, just some other property which you tack onto a thing. As we shall see, this will be a crucial point for answering several questions about God. An observation is now required about the status of the three axioms which I have just presented.
Axioms are very special beasties.
It is implicit in all facts and all knowledge. It is the fundamentally given and directly perceived or experienced, whcih requires no proof or explanation, but on which all proofs and explanations rest. The first attribute of axioms suggests that they cannot be defined, save in ostensive manners. What a silly question, I thought. All that can be said of existence is that it is.