thingness การใช้

• Merton equates the unique " thingness " of a thing, its inscape, to sanctity.
• From Peirce, he takes the idea of Secondness, the brute thingness of things which guides our sense of reality.
• Though we perceive a world of concrete and discrete objects, designated by names, on close analysis the " thingness " dissolves, leaving them " empty " of inherent existence.
• Schuil frequently treats the aluminium before painting it, making dents and holes that become integral parts of the picture .  I use them not to emphasize the thingness of the picture, but because they fit into the picture,  Schuil told Dominic van den Boogerd in 2000.
• As Brown writes in his essay " Thing Theory ", " We begin to confront the thingness of objects when they stop working for us : when the drill breaks, when the car stalls, when the window gets filthy, when their flow within the circuits of production and distribution, consumption and exhibition, has been arrested, however momentarily.