Sentence examples for whiteness from inspiring English sources
The word "whiteness" is correct and usable in written English
In general, it refers to lightness of color or the state of being white. An example sentence could be: "The whiteness of the winter landscape was interrupted by patches of evergreen trees."
noun
The state of being white.
The white thing stands in for or is an instantiation of whiteness; white is re-presented in the object.
On the one hand, it can allow scholars – often self-identified white scholars – to do useful anti-racist work critiquing how whiteness works in white supremacist societies such as the US.
According to the Mohists, "sameness" can refer to at least four types of relations: identity; part-whole relations; being distinct but inseparable features of the same object, such as the hardness and whiteness of a white stone; and kind relations, or being part of the extension of the same term.
"I had one who complained because the whiteness wasn't as white as his shaving cream.
But it was still hard to believe that white people talking about whiteness could do anything more than produce the gazing of blue eyes at pale navels.
Thus 'white' connotes whiteness and supposits for white things.
As Abelard describes it, William held that 'white' signifies the white individual and also whiteness.
If whiteness is a universal then every white thing is an instance of it.
Moreover, the stuff-theoretic approach, unlike the relativizing approach, holds that when an extended object is white in one region and grey in another, the monadic, intrinsic properties whiteness and greyness (not merely the dyadic relations being white at and being grey at) are both instantiated.
But it is doubtful whether this is a position that is possible for a metaphysician who says that a white thing is a bundle composed of whiteness and various other universals.
'Socrates is white' says that Socrates is a subject of whiteness.
