thatnessn.
/ˈðatnɪs/ Philosophy.
The quality or condition of being ‘that’, i.e. of existing as a definite thing.
ΘΚΠ
the world > existence and causation > existence > reality or real existence or actuality > [noun] > reality or quality of being real
reality1545
formality1570
trueness1604
realness1612
thatness1643
positivity1659
actualness1668
positiveness1668
thingsomeness1674
somethingness1675
thingship1697
authenticity1839
thingness1840
truth1842
isness1865
thinginess1891
1643 K. Digby Observ. Religio Medici 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.
1889 St. G. Mivart Truth 211 It apprehends what kind of a thing the object perceived may be—its ‘thatness’, so to speak.
1891 E. B. Bax Outlooks from New Standpoint iii. 183 The phenomenon or sign of the being or of the thatness which itself ever eludes us.
1891 E. B. Bax Outlooks from New Standpoint iii. 191 Imparting to whatness a thatness.
1904 Athenæum 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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