instantia

(London, 1665); Hooke used Bacon's term instantia crucis but in one place modified it to read experimentum crucis.

Dictionary of the History of Ideas HENRY GUERLAC 1968

This is a controversial method known as the instance — instantia, [Greek: enstasis].

The Art of Controversy 2004

For the ancients, and especially the Greeks, furnish us with striking instantia in contrarium founded on fact.

Essays of Schopenhauer 2004

Was it nothing to exercise supreme and secondary jurisdiction, to have the right of pillory, hanging, and dragging at the cart’s tail, besides minor jurisdiction in the first resort (in prima instantia, as the old charters have it) over the whole viscomty of Paris, so gloriously endowed with the revenues of seven noble bailiwicks?

I. An Impartial Glance at the Ancient Magistracy. Book VI 1917

Citta di Firenze composto ad instantia delli excelsi Signori al tempo di

Renaissance in Italy Volume 3 The Fine Arts John Addington Symonds 1866

History (III. 36) "_p_raeterita, instantia, futura, _p_ari oblivione dimiserat; atque _i_llum _i_n nemore Aricino."

Tacitus and Bracciolini The Annals Forged in the XVth Century John Wilson Ross 1852

Bacon, under the name of “Inductio per enumerationem simplicem, ubi non reperitur instantia contradictoria.”

A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive John Stuart Mill 1839

Bacon, under the name of “Inductio per enumerationem simplicem, ubi non reperitur instantia contradictoria.”

A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive (Vol. 1 of 2) John Stuart Mill 1839

In the absence, then, of any universal law of co-existence similar to the universal law of causation which regulates sequence, we are thrown back upon the unscientific induction of the ancients, _per enumerationem simplicem, ubi non reperitur instantia contradictoria_.

A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive John Stuart Mill 1839

For the ancients, and especially the Greeks, furnish us with striking _instantia in contrarium_ founded on fact.

Essays of Schopenhauer Arthur Schopenhauer 1824