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hæcceity Scholastic Philos.|hɛkˈsiːɪtɪ, hiːk-|
Also 7 hæccity.
[ad. med.L. hæcceitāt-em ‘thisness’ (Duns Scotus), f. hæc, fem. of hīc this.]
The quality implied in the use of this, as this man; ‘thisness’; ‘hereness and nowness’; that quality or mode of being in virtue of which a thing is or becomes a definite individual; individuality.
1647R. Baron Cyprian Acad. 6 Club-fisted Logick with all her Quiddities..nor Scotus with his hæccities. 1678Cudworth Intell. Syst. i. ii. §8. 67 Scholasticks..could not make a Rational Discourse of anything, though never so small, but they must stuff if with their Quiddities, Entities, Essences, Hæcceities, and the like. 1837Whewell Hist. Induct. Sc. (1857) I. 244 Duns Scotus..placed the principle of Individuation in ‘a certain determining positive entity’ which his school called Hæcceity or thisness. 1890Jrnl. Educ. 1 Nov. 629/1 Of course, if provision is made only for his general humanity and not for what makes him hic or ille, not for his hæcceity as the schoolmen used to say, a man will have cause to complain. |