Question

C.S. Pierce [Purse] used this term to outline how we perceive events as separate from other events and experience “secondness.” For 10 points each:
[10h] Give this Scholastic term to describe the “thisness” of an object; that is, the characteristics that make it a particular thing rather than part of a class of things.
ANSWER: haecceity (heck-SEE-it-ee) [or haecceitas]
[10m] The idea of haecceity was introduced by this medieval thinker nicknamed Doctor Subtilius. He advanced the univocity of being, which states that God has the same qualities attributed to humans except God has them infinitely.
ANSWER: John Duns Scotus [prompt on partial answer]
[10e] Duns Scotus’s arguments for the univocity of being were based on the arguments of St. Anselm, who is best known for posing this argument for God’s existence that posits “a being than which no greater can be conceived.”
ANSWER: ontological argument
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