Is this statement true or false, "There are things that do not exist"?

The argument at hand is the meaning of the word 'exist'. Until you define the term in context, no meaningful answer can be given.

As a response to your question, I would say that statement is false only because of the use of the word 'are'. The word 'are' is a verb denoting existence. In that context, there can be nothing that exists that does not exist. The terms are mutually exclusive.

It makes sense if a spiritual entity does not manifest itself in the physical world.

The mind exists but the debate is if it is separate from the brain. For from the mind comes ideas that can can capture symbols that represent other ideas. For instance numbers are symbols used to transfer thought in mathematical expression. Alphabets do not exist in the physical world. They exist in the mind. And they are used to create sentences. And hence used to transfer thought from one person to another.

That is another door from the mind and realm of ideas into this physical world.

Ans ponder this. All the things you see present today like cell phones and computers or lap tops were just once ideas. They were not imagined 2,000 years ago. Therefore we know that the realm of ideas is real. Yet it does not exist in this physical world until someone converts the idea into a physical reality.

Still need proof? The spoken word you cannot see the letters flowing out from another person to your ears. They transfer thought. You know what it means. An unseen thing has influenced your mind.

There are things that do not exist. Yet they can affect you and mankind very profoundly.

Even though you made up your mind already, I will disagree.

Anything and everything that can be thought of exists as a thought, even if it is about the absence of something otherwise, love also would not exist when on the contrary without love energy nothing would exist. I realize that I have made a blurry statement. When one verifies that thoughts, emotions, sensations, beliefs, etc. affect the content of the universe or life, if you will, then your statement becomes false.

Cheers!

True. Your mind can give life to things that are imaginary (reminds me of the most recent South Park episode, don't know if you are a fan...)but despite our imaginings and our perceptions, there are some things that I believe just do not exist. This of course raises more questions, but I'll stop here.

Empirically: yes. Subjectively (concepts of the mind): no. Absolutely anything can exist in thought. Superman comes to mind.

I say false.

All that is is. If it is a thing it exists.

Do you mean that are there things out there that we don't know about & that they won't exist until we know about them?

We can imagine there may be some things we don't know about & we can search for them. But they won't exist until we find them.

True. Like oomlaps don't exsitst, but I just manifested it into our world right now by saying it. Everything has to start as an idea that was made up.

Its hard to imagine nothingness. Even nothingness is something,so to say" things do not exist" would be false as existence is something.

yes. it is difficult to picture slomething that doesn't exist. usually we have to use it to explain when someone confuses an idea for reality.

false. how can something be and don't exist at the same time???