qua

Definition

as; in the capacity of; acting as

Etymology

From Latin quā (“in the capacity of”).

Example Sentences

• "Qua work of art, the work of art cannot be interpreted; there is nothing to interpret; we can only criticize it according to standards, in comparison to other works of art; […]"
• "As anatomy, physiology and, later, psychology have developed into more or less well-organized sciences, they have necessarily and rightly come to incorporate the study of, among other things, the structures, mechanisms, and functionings of animal and human bodies qua percipient."
• "For sleep qua sleep has no experiential content: it cannot turn out, as remarked before, that a man was not asleep because he was not having some experience or other. I am denying that a dream qua dream is a seeming, appearance or ‘semblance of reality’."