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withness

English

Noun

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  • (philosophy) The quality of being or doing with something.
  • * 2000 , Sharon Warner, Experiencing the Knowing of Faith (page 113)
    • Whitehead passionately denies this premise, and asserts repeatedly that the root of all perception is the "withness of the body." We see with our eyes; we taste with our palate.
  • * 2009 , Eric Manning, Relationscapes: Movement, Art, Philosophy (page 6)
    • Nonetheless, there is an incipient potentiality even here, where the step can move eventfully in a withness of movement moving that exceeds the predomination of the ground: the step can become a spiral.

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