haecceity

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Can any role nail down the haecceity of an individual?

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  1. the essence that makes something the kind of thing it is and makes it different from any other

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  • Can any role nail down the haecceity of an individual? —  Maverick Philosopher
  • Being without context or environment or principium individuationis, a quiddity with no haecceity, a platonic idea, even duplicate editions of such a quality (were they possible), would be indiscernible, and no sign could be given, no result altered, whether the feeling I meant to stand for this edition or for that, or whether it simply resembled the quality without meaning to stand for it at all. —  Meaning of Truth
  • Rather it is hoped that the haecceity of this enchiridion of arcane and recondite sesquipedalian items will appeal to the oniomania of an eximious Gemeinschaft whose legerity and sophrosyne, whose Sprachgefühl and orexis will find more than fugacious fulfillment among its felicific pages. " —  languagehat.com
  • Can quiddity and haecceity, analogies divine, —  fragments of consciousness
 

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