In logic and philosophy, something that is 'something' or has some definite quality, as opposed to being nothing at all.
From Latin 'aliquid' meaning 'something' or 'some thing,' used in scholastic philosophy. It's the neuter form of 'aliquis' (someone), emphasizing substance or existence of any kind.
Medieval philosophers obsessed over this word when debating whether God created the universe from 'nothing' or from 'something'—aliquid represented the fundamental philosophical problem of existence itself.
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