Definitions
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- adjective philosophy, art, linguistics Pertaining to the substance of a work, separate from what is conveyed;
material ,substantive . - adjective
Actual ;real .
Etymologies
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From thing + -ly.
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Examples
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Heidegger suggests that the "thingness of things" (167) remains remote from us as long as we conceive of things as objects: "the thingly character of the thing does not consist in its being a represented object, nor can it be defined in any way in terms of objectness, the over-againstness, of the object."
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What we see is a construction of bits of information into "chunks" and we can identify these chunks because of our "thingly" concepts.
Serendip's Exchange emily 2010
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(in contrast to the “thingly” character of mere things and the “equipmental” character of useful objects),
Dictionary of the History of Ideas MONROE C. BEARDSLEY 1968
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