The Thing is characterized by the fact that it exhibits itself for the consciousness apprehending it in a specific manner, but is at the same time reflected out of the way in which it presents itself to consciousness and back into itself... in other words, it contains in its own self an opposite truth [to that which it has for the apprehending consciousness].
A Thing is, as 'ta pragmata', a thing insofar as it is practical, and insofar as we have to do with it at all.
A Thing is, as 'ta poioumena', a thing insofar as it is produced by the human hand and stands as such.
The Sacramento Public Library started a Library of Things earlier in 2016 which allowed patrons to check out, among other things, sewing machines and other items that patrons may find useful but may not need to own long term.
Fire is an event, or a process, not a thing
A Thing is, as 'ta physica', a thing insofar as it originates and comes forth from itself.
A Thing is, as 'ta chremata', a thing insofar as it is in use and at our constant disposal.
A Thing is characterized as identity in difference, a fixed object that is saturated in a recognition of the absolute non-fixedness, mobility and flow of the world.
A "thing" was an assembly in old Germanic society, made up of the free people of the community