Thursday, May 31, 2007

You heard it here first ...

... yet another Reprise of haecceity, only this time transmogrified into Melicity.

2 comments:

  1. Anonymous1:56 PM

    If haecceity is "thisness" and quiddity is "whatness", what's the diffness?

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  2. Glad you asked, John. The quiddity of a thing is what makes it the sort of thing it is. The haecceity of a thing is what makes this particular thing what it is in particular.

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