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  • As a misanthrope by temperament (rationis capax etc.)

    Matthew Yglesias » If You Want to Get Things Done, Use Reconciliation 2010

  • Juste judex ultionis, donum fac remissionis ante diem rationis.

    Archive 2009-06-01 bls 2009

  • Flasch notes, Dietrich's distinction between ens reale and ens conceptionale replaces the old scholastic distinction between ens naturae and ens rationis in such a way that it is no longer possible to claim that being as found in the mind is dependent upon extra-mental reality.

    Dietrich of Freiberg Führer, Markus 2009

  • Sensory contents are noticed or remarked in themselves, and each of these relations is, to again use the scholastic expression, anens rationis cum fundamento in re.

    On A Trans-Atlantic Flight 2009

  • Since such projections depend for their existence on the activity of the mind, medieval philosophers refer to them as beings of reason (entia rationis).

    Medieval Theories of Relations Brower, Jeffrey 2009

  • Melancholicos humores per urinam educit, et cerebrum a crassis, aerumnosis melancholiae fumis purgat, quibus addo dementes et furiosos vinculis retinendos plurimum juvat, et ad rationis usum ducit.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Deos omnes illis infensos diceres: tam pannosi, famefracti, tot assidue malis afficiuntur, tanquam pecora quibus splendor rationis emortuus.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • 'Tis a known saying, Furor fit Iaesa saepius palienlia, the most patient spirit that is, if he be often provoked, will be incensed to madness; it will make a devil of a saint: and therefore Basil (belike) in his Homily de Ira, calls it tenebras rationis, morbum animae, et daemonem pessimum; the darkening of our understanding, and a bad angel.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Bayle himself considered these objects as those which were denominated “entia rationis,” beings of reason; they are, however, in fact, only material things considered in their masses, their superficies, their simple lengths and breadths, and the extremities of these simple lengths and breadths.

    A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

  • Solvit Venus rationis vim impeditam, ingentes iras remittit, &c. 2982.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

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