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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

  • 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

  • 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

  • The word "scientia" -- meaning knowledge -- is Latin and is old.

    science: the ancient / modern distinction Bill Kerr 2009

  • The word "scientia" -- meaning knowledge -- is Latin and is old.

    Archive 2009-07-01 Bill Kerr 2009

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • The word science comes from the Latin "scientia," meaning knowledge.

    The daily irrelevant 2008

  • 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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