chairishness

In co-operation with an intelligent joiner I would undertake to defeat any definition of chair or chairishness that you gave me.

A Modern Utopia Herbert George 2006

In co-operation with an intelligent joiner I would undertake to defeat any definition of chair or chairishness that you gave me.

A Modern Utopia 1906

I would undertake to defeat any definition of chair or chairishness that you gave me.

First and Last Things 1906

Chairs just as much as individual organisms, just as much as mineral and rock specimens, are unique things — if you know them well enough you will find an individual difference even in a set of machine-made chairs — and it is only because we do not possess minds of unlimited capacity, because our brain has only a limited number of pigeon-holes for our correspondence with an unlimited universe of objective uniques, that we have to delude ourselves into the belief that there is a chairishness in this species common to and distinctive of all chairs.

A Modern Utopia Herbert George 2006

Chairs just as much as individual organisms, just as much as mineral and rock specimens, are unique things -- if you know them well enough you will find an individual difference even in a set of machine-made chairs -- and it is only because we do not possess minds of unlimited capacity, because our brain has only a limited number of pigeon-holes for our correspondence with an unlimited universe of objective uniques, that we have to delude ourselves into the belief that there is a chairishness in this species common to and distinctive of all chairs.

A Modern Utopia 1906

Chairs just as much as individual organisms, just as much as mineral and rock specimens, are unique things -- if you know them well enough you will find an individual difference even in a set of machine-made chairs -- and it is only because we do not possess minds of unlimited capacity, because our brain has only a limited number of pigeon-holes for our correspondence with an unlimited universe of objective uniques, that we have to delude ourselves into the belief that there is a chairishness in this species common to and distinctive of all chairs.

First and Last Things 1906

In co-operation with an intelligent joiner I would undertake to defeat any definition of chair or chairishness that you gave me. "

A Preface to Politics Walter Lippmann 1931