NOUN
- the essence that makes something the kind of thing it is and makes it different from any other
How To Use haecceity In A Sentence
- 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.
- For historical reasons, such a property is called a haecceity -- literally, a ‘thisness.’
- 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
- There's the haecceity, the isness, the standing reserve, that's one thing: the world.
- They are not individuated by an haecceity or primitive thisness. Structural Realism
- They are not individuated by an haecceity or primitive thisness. Structural Realism
- The haecceity of a thing is what makes this particular thing what it is in particular. You heard it here first ...
- Not that it actually matters, but that is the haecceity of the question and its answer.
- 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.
- 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