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God's knowledge of this class of contingencies they term scientia media.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913
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After all we get the word science from the latin scientia which simply means knowledge.
The History of Science Fiction - Origins of SF | Solar Flare: Science Fiction News 2008
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According to Collingwood, a science in the Latin sense of the word scientia must have a method and subject matter of its own.
Robin George Collingwood D'Oro, Giuseppina 2006
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The word "scientia" -- meaning knowledge -- is Latin and is old.
science: the ancient / modern distinction Bill Kerr 2009
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The word "scientia" -- meaning knowledge -- is Latin and is old.
Archive 2009-07-01 Bill Kerr 2009
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At this point the idea of scientia operativa comes in again, since the direction for a true and perfect rule of operation is parallel to the discovery of a true form.
Francis Bacon Klein, Juergen 2003
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In opposition to the Luther and Reformed orthodox, the Arminians follow the Jesuits in adding a third category in between the scientia simplicis intelligentiae and the scientia libera, the so-called scientia media, or middle knowledge.
Heidelblog 2010
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Augustine, in making a correlation between the beatitudes of the Sermon on the Mount and the gifts of the Spirit mentioned in Isaiah 11, affirmed a reciprocity between "scientia" and "tristitia": mere knowing, he says, makes one sad.
Archive 2008-01-20 papabear 2008
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The word science comes from the Latin "scientia," meaning knowledge.
The daily irrelevant 2008
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Latin scientia, meaning "knowledge", seems to have been used first in 1843 by the French physiologist François Magendie (1783-1855), who referred to phrenology as "a pseudo-science of the present day".
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2008
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