withness
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]withness (uncountable)
- (philosophy) The quality of being or doing with something.
- 2000, Sharon Warner, Experiencing the Knowing of Faith, page 113:
- 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.
- 2009, Eric Manning, Relationscapes: Movement, Art, Philosophy, page 6:
- 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.