Meaning of tableness | Babel Free

Definitions

The quality of being a table.

uncountable

Examples

“When Plato spoke of tableness and cupness, Diogenes the Cynic said: 'I see⟳ a table and a cup, to be sure, but not tableness and cupness.' 'Right,' answered Plato; 'for you have⟳ eyes wherewith to see⟳ the table and the cup, but mind⟳, by which one sees tableness and cupness, you have⟳ not (νου̑ν οὐκ ἔχεις).'”

“[…] implies a philosophical distinction between bookness and tableness. There is no more requirement to show⟳ why an experience⟳ cannot be a brain-state than there is to show⟳ why a book cannot be a table.”

“The exceedingly dry joke is that it is not a small table but a small amount of what might be called tableness.”

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