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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Upon the rupture from its quiddity, the chair gains a countless supply of new and more intimate meanings that are specific to the context within which it is located and ancillary to affect; in short, haecceities.
Accordingly, a great deal of efforts were devoted to discuss and investigate the quiddity of the relations of the mentioned concepts and to present explicatory theories in addition to review the important theories presented in two fields of religious identity and globalization and the occurrence and advent of new communication technologies such as satellite regarding the main concepts of the research.
Ingham summarizes Scotus in contrast with other thinkers by emphasizing that his entitas individualis is "a this rather than a not-that," referencing, of course, the quiddity or nature of a given thing.
(5.) Due to the Yagwoia understanding of the body as a micro-cosmic equivalent of the macrocosmic world-body, the luno-solar quiddity (envisaged as a differential thermal and luminescent fluidity) is also the quiddity of human bodily animation (i.e., soul; see Mimica 2003).
The quiddity of those objects is reassuring when compared to the fragility of memory, whether his own memory or that of others; and they have more solidity than photographs, too.
The essays explore issues of subjectivity, rationality, science, phenomenology, whether "impotence as will-to-grace [is] more adequate to the divine essence than omnipotence as will-to-power," divine quiddity, multicultural conceptions of religion against neutral ones, and more.
(13.) Kotsenovski, O., 'Tartu linnaehituslik eripara minevikus ja nuud' (Tartu's City Constructional Quiddity in the Past and at the Present Times), in Edasi, 26.10.1984, no.
Her essays and fiction have appeared in Florida Review, Quarterly West, Quiddity, Self, Chicago Tribune, and Fast Forward, an anthology.
In a poetic world full of haiku abuse, "The Snow Party" gives quiddity to a form that is too often employed for facility, and the vision of a blandly proud church-on-TV congregation in "Songs of Praise" is given a powerful authenticity-effect by the deft description of a banal human act:
The full shortlist for the 'Bad Sex' award is: 'The Yips' by Nicola Barker, 'The Adventuress' by Nicholas Coleridge, 'Infrared' by Nancy Huston, 'Rare Earth' by Paul Mason, 'Noughties' by Ben Masters, 'The Quiddity of Will Self' by Sam Mills, 'The Divine Comedy' by Craig Raine and 'Back to Blood' by Tom Wolfe.
But rewards accrue to those who seek to understand the quiddity of each drawing by contemplating its medium and technique.
People born after 1945 will not know, unless they make the attempt to discover, what a disparaged quiddity democracy has been among what are sometimes called thinking people throughout history, from ancient Athens down to 1938.
Yet, typically of Shakespeare, desirable states such as plenitude and exceptional singularity carry a loss inside themselves; whatever the quiddity of a given achievement, feeling, or state, there remains the question of its duration.
The quiddity of the continental decadent aesthetic is not simply sensual/sexual excess.
(Quiddity, a little-used term, refers to the 'whatness' of something: what it is.) It is not intended as a processual model and therefore does not explicitly address how researcher development occurs.