quiddity

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an evasion of the point of an argument by raising irrelevant distinctions or objections

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the essence that makes something the kind of thing it is and makes it different from any other

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In return, he refuses to be disenchanted with this refusal, which confirms that the quidditas of objects is no longer the point of artistic attention--or, rather, that it can only be an a priori starting point, the unknowable precondition for apprehending the object in passing and for art (for thought, for reflection).
It is not a quidditas. What we see when, almost controlled by a superior power, we experience the unknown X is the nothingness of determinations (as a subjective genitive).
Stephen resume o procedimento em latim escolastico: "claritas e quidditas"; "a claridade e a quididade".
Presuponiendo una ontologia platonico-escolastica basada en la distincion ente esencia y existencia, Schmitt concibe la "facticidad del ser", la existencia, a la luz de una determinada "realidad" (entendida kantianamente como quidditas), que le da su sentido.
Isto nao significa que nao ha realidade ou que o conhecimento e o que voce bem entende que ele deva ser, mas que a "quidditas" da realidade tambem depende do sujeito que constitui sentido em sua relacao com as aparencias.
No es nada mas que la mera actualizacion de lo que es, de la quidditas o esencia de algo, que es donde, para la metafisica, reside el ser y lo que verdaderamente se da al pensar.
(28.) For a brief overview, see Warnicke, "Inventing the Wicked Women of Tudor England: Alice More, Anne Boleyn, and Anne Stanhope," Quidditas: Journal of the Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association 20 (1999): 18-21.
Some poems illuminate an implement's quidditas or thing-hood.
is the scholastic quidditas, the whatness of a thing ...