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Definition of Haecceity
1. Noun. The essence that makes something the kind of thing it is and makes it different from any other.
Generic synonyms: Center, Centre, Core, Essence, Gist, Heart, Heart And Soul, Inwardness, Kernel, Marrow, Meat, Nitty-gritty, Nub, Pith, Substance, Sum
Definition of Haecceity
1. Noun. The essence of a particular thing; those qualities that define it and make it unique. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Haecceity
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Haecceity
Literary usage of Haecceity
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Metaphysics of the School by Thomas Harper (1879)
"haecceity adds to the formal, or specific, and undetermined Nature, as considered
in the Individual, something conceptually distinct from it, belonging to ..."
2. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1863)
"What could they or any other fathers know of entity, relation, ampliation,
restriction, formality, haecceity, quiddity, or the like? ..."
3. The Monist by Hegeler Institute (1905)
"In the Middle Ages too, men were contented with such considerations ; scholars
spoke only of substantial forms, natural finalities and haecceity.2 Even the ..."
4. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1909)
"... J' He showed that haecceity itself is only a univer^^al concept, which becomes
a principle of individuati on only when applied to an individual thing, ..."
5. Books and Things by Philip Littell (1919)
"... where he will hold this subject until his remembering eye has seen what he
was looking for, concretely, in its haecceity, and the words he was after ..."
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