Word History First Known Use 1896, in the meaning defined above Time Traveler The first known use of thingness was in 1896 See more words from the same year Dictionary Entries Near thingness thingman thingness things personal See More Nearby Entries Cite this Entry Style “Thingness....
Predating these trainings, frequent visits to the collection of ethnological objects at the National Museum of Ethnology in Osaka planted in me a lasting fascination in the world of objects and meaning making. To me, this was the experience that firmly placed the act of tool-making in the ...
In particular, we emphasize that the smallest units of matter and light, as described in quantum physics, are not things , meaning that they do not obey the logic we take for granted when discussing the behavior of macroscopic objects. We also highlight the substantial debate that exists ...
The article deals with the differences of the notion of 'object' or 'thing' in natural languages, concluding that some languages are by their structure more object-biased while others are more event-biased and proceeds to analyse how two common Japanese words, mono and koto , both meaning '...
Huizinga has pointed out that "all things would be absurd if their meaning would be exhausted by their function and their place in the phenomenal world, if by their essence they did not reach into a world beyond this." (1924:201) Starting from this assumption, I purport to analyze the ...
At the same time, T脿pies invited the audience of his art to question its meaning, to be its cocreator, and to meditate on it.doi:10.1080/00233609.2019.1708456Mei-Hsin ChenRoutledgeKonsthistorisk tidskrift/Journal of Art History