Rockness

We do not have to become a rock to study rocks, but we do have to understand the nature of “rockness.”

You can't impact the treeness of a tree, the skyness of the sky, or the rockness of a rock.

He asked, how can you truly know the rockness of a rock by categorizing it? Simply dividing it into smaller pieces, weighing it, and looking at its properties may tell you a great deal about what it is like, but what it is, its essence, its rockness, escapes such analysis […]