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  • Largeness isn't inherently bad, but of course it isn't inherently good either.

    It's Not How Long You Make It, Is It? Roger Sutton 2009

  • And when they inhere in the material particular, the particular has a definite, determinate property instance of Largeness or Beauty.

    Plato's Middle Period Metaphysics and Epistemology Silverman, Allan 2008

  • These include the moral properties familiar from Socrates 'ethical inquiries and properties such as Beauty, Equality, Hot and Cold, or Largeness.

    Plato's Middle Period Metaphysics and Epistemology Silverman, Allan 2008

  • Before turning to particulars, note that it is left open by proponents of this position how we are to think of the nature of Forms and the self-predication statements involving Forms, whether, for instance, ˜Largeness is Largeness 'signals that Largeness is what it is to be largeness, identical with largeness, or a large item, maybe the largest thing there is.

    Plato's Middle Period Metaphysics and Epistemology Silverman, Allan 2008

  • So, just as Elsie is completely a cow, so Largeness is completely large: Largeness is a complete bearer of an incomplete property.

    Plato's Middle Period Metaphysics and Epistemology Silverman, Allan 2008

  • Largeness of person in youth is noble and not unbecoming; but in old age it is inconvenient, and worse than a smaller structure.

    Aphorisms 2007

  • Mostly, you will manage to create an overall look of Largeness without Shapeliness.

    November 2006 2006

  • Mostly, you will manage to create an overall look of Largeness without Shapeliness.

    Are you a Ruler or an Apple? - A Dress A Day 2006

  • Largeness was the sense he had of her — not physically, though she was nearly as tall as himself — but emotionally.

    The Financier 2004

  • Largeness, magnitude, quantity: it is commonplace to speak of Brazil as a 'giant,' a phenomenon spectacular, propitiously born, outrageously favored, and yet marked by the sluggishness of the greatly outsized.

    Sad Brazil Hardwick, Elizabeth 1974

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