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- rareuncountablehuman sciencesThe quality of being a snowman.
Or maybe being-a-snowman is just a way of describing some more fundamental property upon which snowmanness supervenes?
2010, Tamar Szabó Gendler, “Part II. Pretense, Imagination, and Belief”, “Imaginative Resistance”, “9. The Puzzle of Imaginative Resistance (2000)”, in Intuition, Imagination, and Philosophical Methodology, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 1932 more examples
It cannot be regarded as a spatio-temporally dispersed individual (like a football team) which has different properties (such as polar bearness or snowmanness) in different spatio-temporal regions.
1992, S: European Journal for Semiotic Studies, volume 4, page 68Furthermore, we can rate the degree of fuzziness. If something is a definite fact, it is given a value of 1. If it is definitely untrue, it is given the value of 0. For our snowman, if it is a perfect snowman it has the value of 1 and if it is a blob it has a value of 0. As the weather gradually wears away its snowmanness, its fuzzy value slowly moves from 1 down to 0.
2013, Ayub V. O. Ofulla, “Chapter One: Chaos-Order Relationships and the Ancient Concepts of Continuous Creations”, in The Secrets of Hidden Knowledge: How Understanding Things in the Physical Realm Nurtures Life, Abbott Press, →ISBN, page 18
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