Thingness

Thingness is that which is inherent in all things and separates each thing from every other thing.  Thingness is inherent in living things as well as inorganic matter. Accordingly, if the "or" has its origin in things, as opposed to movement or energy, thingness is what makes the "or" possible.  Alternatively, thingness can be seen as another expression of the "or".   We can also trace thingness' place in cosmogony if we take the big bang theory as a starting point.  For the universe, at the beginning of time, was not a thing.   Rather, it was "everything" compressed into an infinitely small point.  Thingness was chained, and it burst free of its constraints at the big bang's inflationary moment.