Oxford University Press philosophy dictionary provides an alternative definition:
"The real essence or nature of a thing; that which makes it the kind of thing that it is (sometimes opposed to haecceity which makes it the particular individual that it is)."
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Oxford University Press philosophy dictionary provides an alternative definition:
"The real essence or nature of a thing; that which makes it the kind of thing that it is (sometimes opposed to haecceity which makes it the particular individual that it is)."
December 14, 2007