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The "bad company of materia" is focused upon here because it is just through this materia that the being is continuously re-created, instead of "being and being without end".
A Domestication of Death: The Poetic Universe of Wislawa Szymborska 2004
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Mere potentiality without any actuality or realization -- what is called materia prima -- nowhere exists by itself, though it enters into the composition of all things except the Supreme Cause.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize 1840-1916 1913
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The indications for using homeopathic medicine are found by experiments called 'provings', in which volunteers are given substances (usually in single-blind or double-blind trials), the effects of which are recorded in books (called materia medica and repertories) and now in software programs.
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2008
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According to Emerson 5th Cricuit, the phrasing was intentional, and should be read in pari materia, meaning they are complementary, not exclusive, as so many collective readers believe.
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The relativity of Reality as thus conceived really involves a return to the position of Kant, except that for the thing-in-itself with its unknowable character and properties is substituted a kind of materia prima, without qualities, attributes, or determinations, and therefore as unknowable as the thing-in-itself, but unknowable now because there is nothing to be known.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913
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His opinions on the "materia" for sacramental absolution, and on the
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913
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"provings," in which volunteers are given substances (usually in single-blind or double-blind trials), the effects of which are recorded in both books (called materia medica and repertories) and software programs.
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2008
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"provings," in which volunteers are given substances (usually in single-blind or double-blind trials), the effects of which are recorded in both books (called materia medica and repertories) and software programs.
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2008
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"provings," in which volunteers are given substances (usually in single-blind or double-blind trials), the effects of which are recorded in both books (called materia medica and repertories) and software programs.
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2008
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"provings," in which volunteers are given substances (usually in single-blind or double-blind trials), the effects of which are recorded in both books (called materia medica and repertories) and software programs.
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2008
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