{"id":425,"date":"2010-11-20T00:34:47","date_gmt":"2010-11-20T05:34:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/?p=425"},"modified":"2010-11-20T00:34:47","modified_gmt":"2010-11-20T05:34:47","slug":"haeccitas-and-quidditas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/2010\/425\/orts\/haeccitas-and-quidditas\/","title":{"rendered":"haeccitas and quidditas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Haeccitas<\/em> is a philosophical term associated with the philosopher Duns Scotus used to indicate the &#8220;thisness&#8221; of things, the singularity of a situation, the phenomenon of the here-and-now, the flesh that you can feel and feels pain. I first ran across this in an terrific article by Marina Warner in TLS &#8220;Apocalypse and its aftermath&#8221; (August 17, 2005).<\/p>\n<p><em>Quidditas<\/em> is a philosophical term referring to the essential &#8220;whatness&#8221; of a thing, or the ultimate substance of which that thing is made. The term was coined by the medieval Scholastics to describe a concept of &#8220;substance&#8221; they encountered whilst translating Aristotle.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Haeccitas is a philosophical term associated with the philosopher Duns Scotus used to indicate the &#8220;thisness&#8221; of things, the singularity of a situation, the phenomenon of the here-and-now, the flesh that you can feel and feels pain. I first ran across this in an terrific article by Marina Warner in TLS &#8220;Apocalypse and its aftermath&#8221; <a href='http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/2010\/425\/orts\/haeccitas-and-quidditas\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-orts","category-words","category-11-id","category-26-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=425"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":426,"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425\/revisions\/426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}