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Whatness
Перевод слова "whatness" на Русский язык
whatness
Существительное
UK
/ˈwɒtnəs/
US
/ˈwɑt.nəs/
whatness
whatnesses множ.
Abstract and often philosophical noun denoting the essence or quiddity of something.
The philosopher pondered the whatness of reality.
Философ размышлял о сущности реальности.
Опеределения
whatness
Существительное
UK
/ˈwɒtnəs/
US
/ˈwɑt.nəs/
The quality or essence of something that makes it what it is; the inherent nature or fundamental characteristics of something.
Philosophers often debate the whatness of objects to understand their true nature.
In scholastic philosophy, the essential nature or quiddity of a thing, contrasted with its 'thatness' (haecceity).
Medieval thinkers distinguished a thing's whatness from its thatness in debates about universals.