thinghood

For, even setting aside the fact, which is not universally true, that proper names indicate the sex of the owner, the mere act of giving a name to a thing implies at least that the thing exists, whether in fact or thought; it implies what we may call 'thinghood': so that every term must carry with it some small amount of intension.

Deductive Logic St. George William Joseph Stock

Where on the downward slope to insensate thinghood does "˜real 'believing and desiring stop and mere" ˜as if 'believing and desiring take over?

Blurring the Line 2007

According to both taxonomy and common perception, a tree is an individual plant, not an organization of interdependent cells, if only because it has the appearance of singular thinghood.

Individuals, societies, and the classification of organisms 2007

But right now this book seems to have hit a tender part of the national consciousness dead centre, thereby my state of thinghood.

Getting Out From Under 1973

The American Scholar, argued that the black American narrative of victimization has already reached its end: "It simply is no longer the case that the essence of black American life is racial victimization and disenfranchisement, a curse and a condemnation, a destiny based on color in which the meaning of one's life is thinghood, created even before one is born."

Sigmund, Carl and Alfred 2008

Berkeley), 'bundles of sensations' implies that the bundle is as important an element in thinghood as the sensations themselves.

Philosophy and Religion Six Lectures Delivered at Cambridge Hastings Rashdall