Citations:nessness

English citations of nessness

• 1865: James Hutchison Stirling, The Secret of Hegel, volume 2, page 126

  Out from or without the Limit, Something is necessarily unlimited. Unlimited Something is simply Nessness quite generally — unlimited So-ness (There-being). But the Other is situated precisely similarly: it, too, is simply So-ness, simply Nessness, and without end. Either can be called Something, either can be called Other; but they possess not a single distinction, the one from the other: each is simply Nessness — that and nothing else. They are both, therefore, the same thing.

• 1963: Etcetera, volume 20, page 288 (International Society for General Semantics)

  But, Socrates,
  I have to confess
  I can make quite a mess
  of the essence of ness —
  the very nessness of ness, if you please.

• 1981: Nathan Katz [ed.], Buddhist and Western Philosophy, page 36 (Sterling)

  In Eckhart, as in Eriugena, we find a God who is not only unnameable and unthinkable, but also a gotheit that is unknown to got himself.⁴⁹ What remains after the silence is the nessness of things (the permutations of ‘less’ and ‘ness’ are both endless and irrelevant) […]

• 1987: Jon Young [ed.], Breaking the Mosaic: Ethnic Identities in Canadian Schooling, page 67 (Garamond Press; →ISBN, 9780920059463)

  The very reason why [in my presentation] I said that “nessness” should be out is exactly that. Because if “nessness” is out it means that you can’t talk about ethnicity as being the property of people and simply being a static ascriptive category but that ethnicity becomes a particular kind of relation of production — a certain kind of material condition and subjectivity.

• 1990: George Cox [compiler], The International Auxiliary Language, Esperanto, Grammar and Commentary, page 234 (4^th ed.; British Esperanto Association)

  In other words, use eco only when you wish to accentuate the abstractness, the “nessness” of the idea.

• 2004: Juan Gil, Mundus Aquarius: Book One, page 144 (Trafford Publishing; →ISBN, 9781412041539)

  I want to reach the –nessness of me!

• 2008: Franklyn Albin Turbak, David K. Gifford [ed.], and Mark A. Sheldon, Design Concepts in Programming Languages, page 1,241 (MIT Press; →ISBN, 9780262201759)

  Classification […] objectification of nessness, 362

Probably a typographical error for newness

• 1913: University of California Chronicle, volume 15, page 443 (University of California Press)

  But unhappily the newness of a moment quâ existence by no means entails the qualitative novelty of its concrete content — for example, the sensations and feelings which are said to be present in it; and it is about nessness of content that we are most concerned.