| For there is no knowledge of things insofar as they are external in effect, but insofar as their nature and quiddity is grasped by the mind. |
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| Quailing was part of Q's quiddity — the Q quaked and quivered, it quarrelled and quashed. |
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| And so we need only consider these two works in order to discover his particular view of being, essence and quiddity that specifies his philosophical thinking. |
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| What it has, instead, is an appetite for human quiddity, and an eye for those fleeting shocks in which cultures strike and rebound. |
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| Demand does not have to go down, by dint of creation's quiddity, when price goes up. |
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| Documenting the quiddity of objects and landscapes, they produced a paratactical, accumulative language. |
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| This is partly because their role is didactic: they are there to show that an Iranian love story can barely be written, and have no quiddity as literary characters. |
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| He transcends the autobiographic into something quintessential, something close to the quiddity of experience. |
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| Moreover, their nature or quiddity is received in signate matter. |
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| In such cases the categories serve less to illuminate a poet's art than to reveal aspects of it that Fraser is unwilling to acknowledge as part of its quiddity. |
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| Just as necessity belongs to a necessary being in virtue of its condition or its quiddity, so possibility belongs to a possible being in virtue of its quiddity. |
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