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tableness

tableness noun: the quality of being a table.

Noun

tableness (uncountable)

  1. The quality of being a table.
    • When Plato spoke of tableness and cupness, Diogenes the Cynic said: 'I see a table and a cup, to be sure, but not tableness and cupness.' 'Right,' answered Plato; 'for you have eyes wherewith to see the table and the cup, but mind, by which one sees tableness and cupness, you have not (νου̑ν οὐκ...1894, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, “First Period, Third Division: Plato and Aristotle”, in E[lizabeth] S[anderson] Haldane, Frances H[elen] Simson, transl., Lectures on the History of Philosophy...
    • […] implies a philosophical distinction between bookness and tableness. There is no more requirement to show why an experience cannot be a brain-state than there is to show why a book cannot be a table.1969, Gerald Eugene Myers, Self: An Introduction to Philosophical Psychology, page 47
    Synonyms:
    tableity

Synonyms of tableness

Origin of tableness

From table + -ness.

Questions about tableness

What does tableness mean?
Tableness means the quality of being a table.
What part of speech is tableness?
Tableness is a noun.

Words near tableness in the dictionary

  1. tablement
  2. tablements
  3. tablemount
  4. tablemounts
  5. tablenapkin
  6. tableness
  7. tabler
  8. tablero
  9. tableroom
  10. tablerooms
  11. tableros

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