More thoughts on alterity

Perhaps a few dictionary definitions courtesy of the web will provide some entry to the discussion.

Alterity

\Al*ter"i*ty\, n. [F. alt['e]rit['e].] The state or quality of being other; a being otherwise. [R.]

For outness is but the feeling of otherness (alterity) rendered intuitive, or alterity visually represented. --Coleridge.

outness
1. The state of being out or beyond; separateness.

2. The state or quality of being distanguishable from the perceiving mind, by being in space, and possessing marerial quality; externality; objectivity. "The outness of the objects of sense." (Sir W. Hamiltom)

Source: Websters Dictionary

(01 Mar 1998)