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The doctrine of aseity or thisness (= suchness) as proposed by Duns Scotus points toward an important truth. "[A]n individual must be qualitatively unique in a fashion no assembling of universal terms ('communicable natures'), including the cryptic universal term 'matter' can adequately account for. The individual can be intuited or felt, it cannot be thought, if that means identified by qualities shareable with other individuals. But what escapes such identification is qualitative, a suchness rather than a mere stuff or thatness. Intuition or feeling is richer than thought. . . .

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