quiddity in English

noun
1
the inherent nature or essence of someone or something.
And so we need only consider these two works in order to discover his particular view of being, essence and quiddity that specifies his philosophical thinking.
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1. Drawing precisely on Averroes’ analysis of the abstraction in Ibn Bâjja, Aquinas writes that “when our intellect reaches the highest abstraction of any intelligible quiddity, it understands by this the quiddity of the separate substance which is like to it (quando intellectus noster peruenit ad summam Abstractionem quidditatis

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3. Epistle 20, "On the Quiddity of Nature," is an exposition of Aristotelian doctrines, as well as of those of Neoplatonic origin; it opens the Angelologic tradition, whose main representatives in Islamic philosophy were Ibn Sina (d