whatness

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It seems that for the subject, the most basic complementarity is between isness and whatness -- without which there could not be a subject.

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  • It seems that for the subject, the most basic complementarity is between isness and whatness -- without which there could not be a subject. —  One Cosmos
  • That means that it is 'the essential whatness' of a body of the character just assigned. —  Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]
  • And they not only know what's what themselves, but can impart to one another any new what's-whatness that they may have acquired, for they are notoriously able to instruct and correct one another Against this Professor Max Muller contends that we can know nothing of what goes on in the mind of any lower animal, inasmuch as we are not lower animals ourselves. —  The Humour of Homer and Other Essays
  • Horseness is the whatness of allhorse. —  Ulysses
  • "A large which of whatness?" —  Roy Blakeley's Camp on Wheels
 

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