BRACERS Record Detail for 48131
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BR defines "hecceity" but would have expected it to be in the "larger Oxford Dictionary". [It is, as "haecceity".]
BR TO ALLEN AND UNWIN, 10 APR. 1948
BRACERS 48131. ALS(X). George Allen and Unwin Ltd.
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Penralltgoch
Llan Ffestiniog
Merioneth
10.4.48
Production Manager
Messrs Allen & Unwin
Dear Sir
“Hecceity” is a term in scholastic philosophy, meaning, roughly, “the property of being just that and nothing else”. I should have expected it to be in the larger Oxford Dictionary.
Yours faithfully
Russell
