(it) is." Haecceity may be defined in some dictionaries as simply the "essence" of a thing, or as a simple synonym for quiddity or hypokeimenon. However...

Primitive communism is a way of describing the gift economies of hunter-gatherers throughout history, where resources and property hunted or gathered...

described as one of "restoration," seeking "to restore the essence and form of the primitive church based on biblical precedent and example; tradition...

of expression. Its protagonists and followers called themselves the New Primitives. Functioning as a banner that summarizes and encompasses the work of...

topics of conversation or any transactions that need to be addressed. In essence, it is polite and standard conversation about unimportant things. The phenomenon...

belief that objects, places, and creatures all possess a distinct spiritual essence. Animism perceives all things—animals, plants, rocks, rivers, weather systems...

of people from aspects of their human nature (Gattungswesen, 'species-essence') as a consequence of the division of labour and living in a society of...

ὁμοούσιον, lit. 'same in being, same in essence', from ὁμός, homós, 'same' and οὐσία, ousía, 'being' or 'essence') is a Christian theological term, most...

described essence as "a hopelessly muddle-headed notion". More recently Kripke's formalisation of possible world semantics in modal logic led to a new approach...

coined the word, and Friedrich Welcker (1784–1868) used it to depict primitive monotheism among ancient Greeks. Max Müller (1823–1900), a British philologist...

of the original New Gods. Aarden – Warrior from the Primitives. Sserpa – A warrior from the Primitives. Seagrin – The water-loving New God. Slain by the...

is the non-material essence of a person, which includes one's identity, personality, and memories, an immaterial aspect or essence of a living being that...

lifts up". In his book The Devil: Perceptions of Evil from Antiquity to Primitive Christianity, Jeffrey Burton Russell discusses various meanings and difficulties...

interview. Each artwork that Olly and Suzi complete is unique and captures the essence of the animal they are observing, and the environment in which they are...

Tylor's ideas typify 19th-century cultural evolutionism. In his works Primitive Culture (1871) and Anthropology (1881), he defined the context of the...

overall complexity. A New Kind of Science argues that this is evidence that simple programs are enough to capture the essence of almost any complex system...

are exceptionally expressive, characterised by primitive vigour, and exude the rich fragrant essence of the soil and the land. Serialised illustrations...

Britannica rather than characterising it as a new language altogether. The argued dates for the period of "Primitive Welsh" are widely debated, with some historians'...

populated by advanced apes and primitive humans leading to analog characters and repeated plot points. A series reboot with a new production team called Rise...

operator applied to a (total) primitive recursive function. Minsky observes the U {\displaystyle U} defined above is in essence the μ-recursive equivalent...

overtaken by newer, better pairings. In 2009, the Flanders Taste foundation organized a gastronomic symposium and "The Flemish Primitives" that was dedicated...

least natural number with a given property. Adding the μ-operator to the primitive recursive functions makes it possible to define all computable functions...

ISSN 0097-9740. Cultural feminism is the ideology of a female nature or female essence reappropriated by feminists themselves in an effort to re-validate undervalued...

human psyche, Adam Kadmon corresponds to the yechidah, the collective essence of the soul. The first to use the expression "original man," or "heavenly...

to nonexistence and nonbeing. Existence is often contrasted with essence: the essence of an entity is its essential features or qualities, which can be...

and God the Holy Spirit, three distinct persons (hypostases) sharing one essence/substance/nature (homoousion). As the Fourth Lateran Council declared,...

interaction: primitive active force, primitive passive force, derivative active force, and derivative passive force. The analysis of primitive active force...

who insisted that Jesus (God the Son) was "same in being" or "same in essence" with God the Father. Arius stated: "If the Father begat the Son, then...

individual: "Feuerbach resolves the essence of religion into the essence of man [menschliche Wesen, human nature]. But the essence of man is no abstraction inherent...

imagined to be at the heart of the primitive. ... [Primitive glamour allowed for self-assertion so that the primitive role] offered something more than...