Thingness
Full definition of thingness
Noun
thingness
- The quality of a material thing; objectivity; actuality; reality.
- 1994, Shadia B Drury, Alexandre Kojève http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&vid=ISBN0312120923&id=zQRKXLwDPc4C&pg=PA26&lpg=PA26&sig=zR0NpFT9gF4Mo_VTIPTm1274piITo live as a thing, to live for another and as the other expects, is to live unauthentically or in bad faith. To be true to oneself, one must reduce others to thingness and resist being so reduced.
- 1998, William C Chittick, The Self-Disclosure of God http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&vid=ISBN0791434036&id=HKvcLT881KsC&pg=PA46&lpg=PA46&sig=MwptOcI_pBuYMCxidBTxXhoKhaMWhether we dwell in the thingness of fixity or the thingness of wujūd, we are “at†the wujūd of the Real.
- 2002, Kai Hammermeister, The German Aesthetic Tradition http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&vid=ISBN0521785545&id=n4lGu9hu_ewC&pg=PA176&lpg=PA176&sig=QuC-Pn46rPB8OFi2S9KtvMmExh0The thingness of a thing precedes the conscious perception of its sensual properties.