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quiddity - translation to russian
ESSENCE OR INHERENT NATURE OF A PERSON OR THING (SCHOLASTIC PHILOSOPHY)
Quidditas; To ti en einai; Quiddities
quiddity
['kwiditi]
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quiddity
quiddity noun 1) book. сущность 2) = quibble 1.
Definition
Quiddity
·noun A trifling nicety; a cavil; a quibble.
II. Quiddity ·noun The essence, nature, or distinctive peculiarity, of a thing; that which answers the question, Quid est. or, What is it?.
Wikipedia
Quiddity
In scholastic philosophy, "quiddity" (; Latin: quidditas) was another term for the essence of an object, literally its "whatness" or "what it is".
Examples of use of quiddity
1. That sounds like a parody of lefty thinking, but controversial art has a worth quite besides its quiddity.
2. Besides this division of possible beings into the eternal and temporal, or permanent and transient, he divides quiddity and existence into essence and accident.
3. God is anterior to the Universe and transcendent with respect to it.» Avicenna‘s study of existence depends upon two fundamental distinctions: these distinctions concern the essence and quiddity of a thing, and its existence on the one hand and its necessity, possibility or impossibility on the other....
