quiddity
21quiddity — n. (pl. ies) 1 Philos. the essence of a person or thing; what makes a thing what it is. 2 a quibble; a trivial objection. Etymology: med.L quidditas f. L quid what …
22Quiddities — Quiddity Quid di*ty, n.; pl. {Quiddities}. [LL. quidditas, fr. L. quid what, neut. of quis who, akin to E. who: cf. F. quiddit[ e].] 1. The essence, nature, or distinctive peculiarity, of a thing; that which answers the question, Quid est? or,… …
23The Great and Secret Show — infobox Book | name = The Great and Secret Show title orig = translator = image caption = Cover of first UK edition author = Clive Barker cover artist = country = United Kingdom language = English series = Book of the Art trilogy genre = Fantasy… …
24Thomism — St. Thomas Aquinas (c. 1225 1274), the eponym of Thomism. Picture by Fra Angelico (c. 1395 1455) …
25Alfred de Grazia — Alfred de Grazia, (born December 29, 1919 in Chicago, Illinois) is a political scientist, author, consultant, and editor.Early life De Grazia was born on December 29, 1919 and raised in Chicago. His father, Alfred de Grazia Sr., a musician,… …
26Haecceity — (from the Latin haecceitas , which translates as thisness ) is a term from medieval philosophy first coined by Duns Scotus which denotes the discrete qualities, properties or characteristics of a thing which make it a particular thing. Haecceity… …
27Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas — Syed Muhammad al Naquib bin Ali bin Abdullah bin Muhsin al Attas (born September 5, 1931) is a prominent contemporary Muslim philosopher and thinker from Malaysia. He is one of the few contemporary scholars who is thoroughly rooted in the… …
28Islamic metaphysics — refers to the study of metaphysics within Islamic philosophy.Early Islamic metaphysicsCosmological and ontological argumentsAvicenna s proof for the existence of God was the first ontological argument, which he proposed in the Metaphysics section …
29Essentialism — In philosophy, essentialism is the view that, for any specific kind of entity, there is a set of characteristics or properties all of which any entity of that kind must possess. This view is contrasted with non essentialism which states that for… …
30Posterior Analytics — The Posterior Analytics is a text from Aristotle s Organon that deals with demonstration, definition, and scientific knowledge. The demonstration is distinguished as a syllogism productive of scientific knowledge , while the definition marked as… …
