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Definition of Thisness
1. Noun. The qualities, properties or characteristics of a thing which make it a particular thing. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Thisness
1. the quality of being this [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Thisness
Literary usage of Thisness
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 (1881)
"The answer to the difficulty is, that each man and all men have a thisness, and
each man has this thisness by which he is distinguished from his neighbour. ..."
2. The Journal of Speculative Philosophy: Ed. by Wm. T. Harris edited by William Torrey Harris (1884)
"We have in the above explanation the meaning of the terms " thisness " and "this."
That which is in the presentation, but, although in the presentation (eg, ..."
3. The Monist by Hegeler Institute (1908)
"You can think of thisness, you can abstract the feature of presentation but each
time your thought refers ... Your thisness is still a universal thisness. ..."
4. Outlooks from the New Standpoint by Ernest Belfort Bax (1891)
"But the thisness, the ... But it is, nevertheless, this element alone, the alogical
spontaneity or thisness of the individual in the act of rationalising ..."
5. Investigations Representing the Departments: Part 1. Systematic Theology by University of Chicago (1903)
"Hence in accepting Bradley *s distinction between of logical ideas or meanings,
this peculiar and coercive "This" and" thisness" wo cannot accept the ..."
6. The Principles of Logic by Francis Herbert Bradley (1883)
"But thisness on the other hand does belong to the content, ... No amount of
thisness which an event possesses will exclude the existence of self-same events ..."
7. The Principles of Logic by Francis Herbert Bradley (1883)
"But thisness on the other hand does belong to the content, ... No amount of
thisness which an event possesses will exclude the existence of self-same events ..."
8. The Roots of Realty: Being Suggestions for a Philosophical Reconstruction by Ernest Belfort Bax (1908)
"The qualitative thisness (or simple immediacy) is unstable, ... thisness, as
such, the immediate conscious moment, always appears on reflection as the ..."
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