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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

thingish en · ADJ

Etymology

From thing + -ish.

Meanings

  1. 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:

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most thingish Degree=Sup lexicographic
more thingish Degree=Cmp lexicographic