Thisness
Haecceity (from the Latin haecceitas - pronounced heck-see-ity) is usually translated as "thisness." Duns Scotus is believed to be the first person to use the word to denote the wholly unique components that make a person or object unlike any other person or object. In a certain sense it is the emergent quality of a thing that we recognize as being one …
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