10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «THISNESS»
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thisness in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
thisness and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Oxford Readings in Philosophical Theology: Volume 1: ...
The second moderation of Social Trinitarianism is due to the important thesis that
divine persons lack thisness. Here by a thisness I mean an unanalysable intrinsic
property necessarily unique to the thing which has it. Swinburne contrasts ...
2
Order and Agency in Modernity: Talcott Parsons, Erving ...
Consequently, “the just thisness” of an object, or, haecceity, hinges on the hic et
nunc. The 'just thisness' is only clear “in situ” (Garfinkel et al. 1981, 133) and only
the “first time through” (1981, 134). That is, as soon as the clarity of the 'just ...
3
Essays in the Metaphysics of Modality
So if there were a thisness of a non-actual individual, it would stand in a relation
to that individual. But according to actualism non-actual individuals cannot enter
into any relations. It seems to follow that according to actualism there cannot be a
...
Alvin Plantinga John O'Brien Professor of Philosophy University of Notre Dame, Matthew Davidson Assistant Professor of Philosophy California State University at San Bernardino, 2003
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Universals, Particulars, and the Identity of Indiscernibles
So here is Adams's account of the incompatibility of his thisness and the property
of being a musical performance: The explanation is that I am (in fact) a person,
and there are necessary conditions of trans-temporal and trans-world identity ...
Timothy Haymond Pickavance, 2008
5
Istvan Anhalt: Pathways and Memory
Soon after composing Winthrop, Anhalt completed Thisness (1985), for soprano
and accompanist. Thisness and A Wedding Carol, from the same year, are the
first works with texts written entirely by Anhalt, as distinguished from those texts
that ...
Robin Elliott, Gordon Ernest Smith, 2001
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The Principle of Sufficient Reason: A Reassessment
There are, however, difficulties in the notion of haecceities, which thereby make
the interchange haecceitism based arguments less plausible. For instance,
Adams (1981) observes that there is a problem about the relation of me to my
thisness, ...
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Reason, Metaphysics, and Mind: New Essays on the Philosophy ...
More generally, given serious actualism, each thisness exists only if the relevant
individual exists. Robert Adams agrees that, given serious actualism, each
thisness exists only if the relevant individual exists. Here is a passage from
Adams, ...
Kelly James Clark, Michael Rea, 2012
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An Interpretive Introduction to Quantum Field Theory
I'll use the philosopher's expression primitive thisness for the idea.2 Here is
another way to bring out the idea. Because an object's primitive thisness is
supposed somehow to have to do with its identity, independent of all its
properties, ...
9
Mind, Brain, and Free Will
Even if some physical substances have thisness, maybe not all physical
substances have thisness. Maybe quarks which have a mass do have thisness,
but photons (the particles of light) which have no mass (and so may be thought
not to be ...
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Particulars, Actuality, and Identity Over Time, Vol 4: ...
It would be absurd to suppose that being the property of being identical with me
could be a purely internal feature of my thisness, not implying any relation to me.
The relation between an individual and its thisness is essential to both of them.
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «THISNESS»
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thisness is used in the context of the following news items.
“You Speak So Well” – HJ Golakai Appraises South Africa's “White …
All this “Thisness” effected by the daring Thando Mgqolozana for “standing in his truth”, rallying for change, then dropping the mic and walking off, all at the white ... «Books LIVE, May 15»
Julian Casablancas, Jackson Browne, and Prince
When His Royal Thisness celebrated his return to Warner by simultaneously releasing two wildly divergent albums, Prince probably anticipated something ... «Colorado Springs Independent, Oct 14»
Swinburne's Separations
The simple view is that each person has a 'thisness' apart from their brain matter, memory or character, and this 'thisness' is what makes him or her a person, ... «Philosophy Now, May 14»
When did faith start to fade?
Watson regards phenomenology as “the most underrated movement of the twentieth century,” and finds in its emphasis on happy sensations, on the thisness of ... «New Yorker, Feb 14»
Richard Rohr Download: A Few Thoughts and Quotes
John Duns Scotus is a famous Franciscan who has influenced Rohr a great deal. Scotus talked of the importance of thisness. God hasn't created in the abstract, ... «Patheos, Oct 13»
New First Step In Portfolio Construction
Haecceity (pronounced:/hakˈsēətē/) is a philosophical term that translates to "thisness." It can be thought of as the discrete properties, characteristics, and ... «Seeking Alpha, Aug 13»
Jef Lee Johnson est mort
En 2005, il avait enregistré Thisness sous son nom, avec son trio composé de Chico Huff à la basse et Ted Thomas jr. à la batterie (avec en invité l'actrice ... «Qobuz.com, Jan 13»
Candoo Attitude
This partly stems from the unique movement and interplay between the drums and bass which for me forms the foundation, the intrinsic 'thisness' of Can. «Clash Magazine, Nov 12»
Ash tree disease: Britain will never look the same again
I'm not sure whether his intuition of “thisness” (on which inscape relies) is intellectually coherent. Never mind. What he did do was see and feel, and since there ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Nov 12»
Maybe a Bear Ate It!: the review
... be it a bear or vengeful God, is controlling our fate and taking our books, Maybe A Bear Ate It! lacks what literary critic James Wood described as "thisness: "[a] ... «Westword, Apr 12»
