Definition of "thatness" []

• The quality or characteristic of being that (something referred to). (noun)

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• "Then again, applying the same logic, everything just mentioned could all be thought of as thatness, instead — yet whoness has been a speciescentric construct, but thatness, too impersonal."
• "The later Heidegger clarifies that the thinking that begins with Being and Time is neither directed to being in a metaphysical sense the whatness or thatness of things nor directed to the human being in an existential-phenomenological sense."
• "Inauthentic existence has the character of an irreducible thatness, what Heidegger calls ‘das Daß seines Da’."