Excellent piece. For "how to bring a viewer closer to the essential qualities that make up tomato-ness" see Radiotopia's approach in podcasting with Everything is Alive.
Thanks. Quiddity's hard to work into conversation, but it's probably better than thingness or whatness or tomatoness or whatever's standing in for it. If you want a couple more which are impossible to use without feeling pretentious - try out haecceity and hypokeimenon.
Excellent piece. For "how to bring a viewer closer to the essential qualities that make up tomato-ness" see Radiotopia's approach in podcasting with Everything is Alive.
Another beautiful piece. And I've finally learned the word I've been searching for years for, "quiddity." Irony intended...
Thanks. Quiddity's hard to work into conversation, but it's probably better than thingness or whatness or tomatoness or whatever's standing in for it. If you want a couple more which are impossible to use without feeling pretentious - try out haecceity and hypokeimenon.