thingish

English

Etymology

thing + -ish

Adjective

thingish (comparative more thingish, superlative most thingish)

  1. (chiefly philosophy) Like a physical, tangible thing; objective.
    • 2008 April 3, Jaroslav Peregrin, “Book Reviews”, in Erkenntnis, volume 69, number 1, →DOI, pages 131–135:
      (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.)

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