Everything about Quiddity

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: QuiddityA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: Existence and the Problem of Aḥwāl: The Quiddity and Ontological Status of Existence in Avicenna and His Islamic ReceptionInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: QuidditiesThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: Evidence for Locally Produced, Naturally Accountable Phenomena of Order, Logic, Reason, Meaning, Method, etc. In and as of the Essential Quiddity of Immortal Ordinary Society, (I of IV): An Announcement of StudiesCited 152 times
5. Go sideways: HaecceityA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: EssenceA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• Evidence for Locally Produced, Naturally Accountable Phenomena of Order, Logic, Reason, Meaning, Method, etc. In and as of the Essential Quiddity of Immortal Ordinary Society, (I of IV): An Announcement of Studies

  Harold Garfinkel · 1988 · Sociological Theory · 152 citations

• Families and Networks of Internet Memes: The Relationship Between Cohesiveness, Uniqueness, and Quiddity Concreteness

  Elad Segev, Asaf Nissenbaum, Nathan Stolero · 2015 · Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication · 86 citations

• What do coaches orchestrate? Unravelling the ‘quiddity’ of practice

  Robyn L. Jones, Lars Tore Ronglan · 2017 · Sport, Education and Society · 54 citations

• Quiddity and Real Distinction in St Thomas Aquinas

  Joseph Owens · 1965 · Mediaeval Studies · 18 citations

• The Quiddity of the Head Louse

  Jerome Z. Litt · 1978 · Archives of Dermatology · 8 citations

• The brain-mind quiddity: ethical issues in the use of human brain tissue for therapeutic and scientific purposes.

  L Burd, J M Gregory, J Kerbeshian · 1998 · Journal of Medical Ethics · 7 citations

• Existence (wujūd) and Quiddity (māhiyyah) in Islamic Philosophy

  Seyyed Hossein Nasr, Philosophy Documentation Center · 1989 · International Philosophical Quarterly · 6 citations

• The Quiddity of Mercy

  Nigel Walker · 1995 · Philosophy · 5 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• Existence and the Problem of Aḥwāl: The Quiddity and Ontological Status of Existence in Avicenna and His Islamic Reception

  Francesco Omar Zamboni · 2023 · Oriens · 2 citations

• A. S. Byatt and the quiddity of things: a material-semiotic approach to narrating the human through the non-human

  Emilie Walezak · 2022 · Textual Practice · 1 citations

• Quiddity College: Thomas Jefferson's Legacy for Moral Science

  William Stephenson · 2024 · Operant Subjectivity · 1 citations

• Gold, Its Quiddity, and India’s Social Development

  Barbara Harriss-White · 2024 · Social Change · 1 citations

• Damien Janos. Avicenna on the Ontology of Pure Quiddity

  Jari Kaukua · 2022 · Nazariyat İslam Felsefe ve Bilim Tarihi Araştırmaları Dergisi (Journal for the History of Islamic Philosophy and Sciences) · 1 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• QuidditiesAdam Fieled · 2009
• Apparition Poem #1613Adam Fieled · 2010
• 📕Hanklyn-janklin, or, A stranger's rumble-tumble guide to some words, customs and quiddities Indian and Indo-BritishNigel B. Hankin · 1992
• QuidditiesWillard Van Orman Quine · 1987
• 📕Avicenna on the Ontology of Pure QuiddityDamien Janos · 2020
• The Doctrine of Quiddities and Modes in Francis of Meyronnes; Volume 2Caird Alfred Page · 2018
• Hanklyn-janklinNigel B. Hankin · 1997
• 📕The quiddity ofSetofimSebastian Joris · 1972

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