horseness

Antisthenes once said to Plato, "A horse I see, but 'horseness' I do not see."

A Short History of Greek Philosophy John Marshall 1880

For instance, physical or mental existence, particularity or universality, do not form part of “horseness” as such.

Hitler's Angel (A Meta Christmas Carol) 2009

The basic question is what takes us from the common nature say horseness to the individual.

Scotus, Heidegger, and Derrida Tusar N Mohapatra 2005

The basic question is what takes us from the common nature say horseness to the individual.

Archive 2005-10-01 Tusar N Mohapatra 2005

Do her horses maintain their, well, horseness, or are they -- through an act of anthropomorphism -- transformed into creatures defined by human fears, desires, frustrations, etcetera?

Horse Heaven by Jane Smiley: Questions 2000

Although Avicenna vehemently denies that universals have any extra-mental existence and although he asseverates that individuals alone exist, he maintains that a nature can be contemplated which, in itself, is neither one nor many (numerically) but is simply the nature that it intrinsically is: horseness is simply horseness.

Dictionary of the History of Ideas JULIUS WEINBERG 1968

“horseness” as such does not exist; instead what exists are horses as individual supposita and the universal concept of

Hitler's Angel (A Meta Christmas Carol) 2009

(numerically) but is simply the nature that it intrinsically is: horseness is simply horseness.

Dictionary of the History of Ideas 1925