Saturday, October 29, 2022

haecceity (2022-10-29) (2022-11-2)

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/haecceity

The essence of a particular thing that gives it its unique particularity; those qualities that make an individual this specific individual and not some other.

https://tw.ichacha.net/haecceity.html

Haecceity (from the Latin haecceitas, which translates as "thisness") is a term from medieval philosophy first coined by Duns Scotus (c 1265 - 1308) which denotes the discrete qualities, properties or characteristics of a thing which make it a particular thing. Haecceity is a person or object's "thisness".