Meaning of suchness | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The natural state of a person or thing; quality; character or worth.
   uncountable, usually
2. Existence per se.
   uncountable, usually

Equivalents

Examples

“The importance of which may be fully and plainly rendered thus; that since nothing in the Universe stands possessed of a Real or True Nature, i.e. doth constantly and invariately hold the precise Quale, or Suchness of their particular Entity, to Eternity; […]”

“ca. 1928, Hans Driesch, "Philosophy of Nature", in, 1928, Edward Leroy Schaub, ed., Philosophy Today: Essays on Recent Developments in the Field of Philosophy, page 431, The same relation may prevail between the suchness of willing in men and the realization of that willing.”

“1955, J. D. Salinger, "Franny", in, 1961, Franny and Zooey, 1991 LB Books edition, page 22, Without any apparent regard for the suchness of her environment, she sat down.”

“Rather than give an answer, you have to section the tangerine and invite the questioner to have a taste. Doing this, you allow him or her to enter the suchness of the tangerine without any verbal or conceptual description.”

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