How To Use Haecceity In A Sentence
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Some would defend the Principle even in this case by claiming that there are properties such as being that very object A. Call such a property a thisness or haecceity.
The Identity of Indiscernibles
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Rather it is hoped that the haecceity of this enchiridion of arcane and recondite sesquipedalian items will appeal to the oniomania of an eximious Gemeinschaft whose legerity and sophrosyne, whose Sprachgefühl and orexis will find more than fugacious fulfillment among its felicific pages.
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The haecceity or thisness of an object, the property of being (identical to) that very object, provides a trivial example of an individual essence for each object.
Essential vs. Accidental Properties
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Although it might seem to be a highly fanciful notion, it is hardly more fanciful than some haecceity theories which employ the same distinction, nor perhaps than some possible worlds theories either.
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This leads to a dilemma that was articulated by Steven French and Michael Redhead (1988); either quantum particles are not individuals, or they are individuals but the principle of individuation that applies to them must make reference to some kind of empirically transcendent haecceity, bare particularity or the like.
Structural Realism
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The haecceity of a thing is what makes this particular thing what it is in particular.
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Rather it is hoped that the haecceity of this enchiridion of arcane and recondite sesquipedalian items will appeal to the oniomania of an eximious Gemeinschaft whose legerity and sophrosyne, whose Sprachgefühl and orexis will find more than fugacious fulfillment among its felicific pages.
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Now, “God, seeing Alexander's individual notion or haecceity, sees in it at the same time the basis and reason for all the predicates which can be said truly of him.”
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
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God: concepts of | haecceity: medieval theories of |
Trinity
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Understanding concepts in his philosophy (eg., faciality, virtuality, haecceity, types of becoming, and rhizome) is important as they provide to entry points into some of the issues under examination.
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But it has extra-mental existence only in the particular things in which it exists, and in them it is always ‘contracted’ by the haecceity.
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Closely related to these theories is one kind of haecceity theory, according to which individuals would be constructs of universal properties with the very important addition of one singular property (an haecceity).
Existence
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It is the entire assemblage in its individuated aggregate that is a haecceity; it is this assemblage that is defined by a longitude and a latitude, by speeds and affects, independently of forms and subjects, which belong to another plane.
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Not that it actually matters, but that is the haecceity of the question and its answer.
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The haecceity of a thing is what makes this particular thing what it is in particular.
You heard it here first ...
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They are not individuated by an haecceity or primitive thisness.
Structural Realism
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They are not individuated by an haecceity or primitive thisness.
Structural Realism
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There's the haecceity, the isness, the standing reserve, that's one thing: the world.
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His emphasis upon Lolita’s thisness, what Joyce called haecceity, is the unshakable foundation of his effort to restore her individuality, to break the spell of her “nymphage,” to see her as the unique woman he has uniquely damaged.
The enactment of moral experience
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For historical reasons, such a property is called a haecceity -- literally, a ‘thisness.’
