Качество and кража

[Clare Kitson]

Thanks very much for all the helpful advice on качество and кража.
I'm still mulling over the possibilities for the former. ('Quiddity' is tempting, for a couple of places where I can introduce it so that people will know what it means.)
For the latter I'm reluctantly coming round to "theft". It has to be. In fact later in the text Khlebnikov does say the acquirers/appropriators/exploiters are trying to sanitize their actions in appropriating and exploiting the inventors' ideas, by dedicating monuments to them. So perhaps, in this extract, they're trying to distance themselves from the theft that they themselves most certainly committed.
Clare


> Date: Wed, 7 Aug 2013 09:22:31 +0200
> From: rmcleminson at POST.SK
> Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] Качество and кража
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> The definition Существенная определённость предмета, явления или процесса, в силу которой он является данным, а не иным предметом, явлением или процессом corresponds to what the scholastic philosophers called quidditas (in English quiddity).  This was a concept unknown to classical philosophy, which did of course talk of qualitas - or perhaps I should say not that it did not have the concept, but that it did not make the distinction, which seems also to be true of Punin.  The question therefore is whether English "quality" is elastic enough to cover the full range of meaning of качество as used in the original without introducing unnecessary ambiguity; and that is a matter for the translator's judgment.
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> As for кража, am I alone in hearing an echo of "la propriété, c'est le vol"?
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