| 单词 |
thatness |
| 释义 |
thatness Philos.|ˈðætnɪs| [f. that dem. pron. + -ness.] The quality or condition of being ‘that’, i.e. of existing as a definite thing.
1643Digby Observ. Relig. Med. (1644) 86 It is evident that samenesse, thisnesse, and thatnesse, belongeth not to matter by it selfe,..but onely as it is distinguished and individuated by the forme. 1889Mivart Truth 211 It apprehends what kind of a thing the object perceived may be—its ‘thatness’, so to speak. 1891E. B. Bax Outlooks fr. New Standpoint iii. 183 The phenomenon or sign of the being or of the thatness which itself ever eludes us. Ibid. 191 Imparting to whatness a thatness. 1904Athenæum 24 Dec. 868/2 The investing of the content, which is in Bradleian language a ‘what’, with self-existent reality or ‘that-ness’. |

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