thingish en · ADJ
Etymology
From thing + -ish.
Meanings
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Like a physical, tangible thing; objective.
(However, Sellars vehemently rejects that this would imply they are merely ‘in the eye of the beholder’—despite starting as mere posits of a theoretician, once the theory acquires a certain social status, they become as thingish as a thing can be.)
2008 April 3, Jaroslav Peregrin, “Book Reviews”, in Erkenntnis, volume 69, number 1, →DOI, pages 131–135:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| most thingish | Degree=Sup | lexicographic | |
| more thingish | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic |