withness
nounEtymology From with + -ness.
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Human sciences, Philosophy, Sciences The quality of being or doing with something.
- Whitehead passionately denies this premise, and asserts repeatedly that the root of all perception is the "withness of the body." We see with our eyes; we taste with our palate.2000, Sharon Warner, Experiencing the Knowing of Faith, page 113:
- Nonetheless, there is an incipient potentiality even here, where the step can move eventfully in a withness of movement moving that exceeds the predomination of the ground: the step can become a spiral.2009, Eric Manning, Relationscapes: Movement, Art, Philosophy, page 6: