Meaning of Thingness | Babel Free

Definitions

The quality of a material thing; objectivity; actuality; reality.

uncountable, usually

Equivalents

Examples

“1994, Shadia B Drury, Alexandre Kojève http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&vid=ISBN0312120923&id=zQRKXLwDPc4C&pg=PA26&lpg=PA26&sig=zR0NpFT9gF4Mo_VTIPTm1274piI To live⟳ as a thing, to live⟳ for another and as the other expects, is to live⟳ unauthentically or in bad faith. To be true to oneself, one must reduce⟳ others to thingness and resist⟳ being so reduced.”

“Whether we dwell in the thingness of fixity or the thingness of wujūd, we are “at” the wujūd of the Real.”

“The thingness of a thing precedes the conscious perception of its sensual properties.”

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