Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state or quality of being this; hæcceity.
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- noun The
qualities ,properties orcharacteristics of athing which make it aparticular thing.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Other times they're constructed to isolate a telling detail that creates what Wood calls thisness, which he defines as "any detail that draws abstraction toward itself and seems to kill that abstraction with a puff of palpability."
One-Way Street 2008
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Other times they're constructed to isolate a telling detail that creates what Wood calls thisness, which he defines as "any detail that draws abstraction toward itself and seems to kill that abstraction with a puff of palpability."
One-Way Street Richard Prouty 2008
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Other times they're constructed to isolate a telling detail that creates what Wood calls thisness, which he defines as "any detail that draws abstraction toward itself and seems to kill that abstraction with a puff of palpability."
One-Way Street 2008
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Other times they're constructed to isolate a telling detail that creates what Wood calls thisness, which he defines as "any detail that draws abstraction toward itself and seems to kill that abstraction with a puff of palpability."
One-Way Street 2008
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Would the quintessential "thisness" of each of us disappear if a new person is created?
Archive 2006-12-01 2006
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The Spirit, meanwhile, both provides creatures with their "thisness," or particularity as unique individuals, and lures them onward toward new possibilities of fulfillment and self-transcendence.
A Thinking Reed 2008
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n., the essence that makes something the kind of thing it is and makes it different from any other; a person or object's "thisness" two things in two days -- a record for the recent writer's block.
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This, in its turn, is followed by a nod to Gerard Manley Hopkins's use of the word "haecceitas," referring to an entity's individual "thisness," which, Vendler reminds us, he borrowed from the medieval philosopher Duns Scotus.
Helen Vendler's new commentary on Emily Dickinson, reviewed by Michael Dirda 2010
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The identity and individuality of quantum particles could be grounded in each having a primitive thisness, and the same could be true of spacetime points.
Structural Realism Ladyman, James 2009
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They are not individuated by an haecceity or primitive thisness.
Structural Realism Ladyman, James 2009
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