What's the plural form of haecceity? Here's the word you're looking for.
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The noun haecceity can be countable or uncountable.
In more general, commonly used, contexts, the plural form will also be haecceity.
However, in more specific contexts, the plural form can also be haecceities e.g. in reference to various types of haecceities
or a collection of haecceities.
Not that it actually matters, but that is the haecceity of the question and its answer.
However, all that follows from that is that if Quine hadn't existed, it would not have been possible to refer to his haecceity, at least, not by means of a gerund involving a proper name of Quine.
The haecceity of a thing is what makes this particular thing what it is in particular.
True enough, we can only refer to Quine's haecceity by referring, at least obliquely, to Quine.
Haecceities therefore differ from universal properties, since the latter are exemplifiable by a multiplicity of entities.
Smooth space is filled by events or haecceities, far more than by formed and perceived things.
