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  • As translated by Boethius, Aristotle introduced the distinction between univocal and equivocal terms by claiming that whereas univocal terms were subordinated to one substantiae ratio, equivocal terms were subordinated to more than one substantiae ratio.

    Medieval Theories of Analogy Ashworth, E. Jennifer 2009

  • Kant's Principle of Succession makes change intelligible: change occurs because of substantial connections ([substantiae] cum aliis connexae sunt); the mutual dependency of substances determines mutual alterations (prop. 12, 1: 411. 18-200).

    Kant's Philosophical Development Schönfeld, Martin 2007

  • For instance, words like dolere, “suffer,” and dolor, “pain,” were said to have the same significatio, namely, pain, but different modi significandi: one signifying per modum fieri, the other per modum substantiae.

    STUDY OF LANGUAGE ALVAR ELLEG 1968

  • Boethius is found in In Isagogen Por - phyrii Commenta, Corpus Scriptorem Ecclesiasticorum Lati - norum, Vol. XLVIII (Vienna, 1906), 135-69; also Quomodo substantiae in eo quod sint bonae sint cum non sint substan - tialia bona (London, 1928), pp. 44-45; and in De Trinitate

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas JULIUS WEINBERG 1968

  • [38] "Hoc non est inaequalitas substantiae, sed ordo naturae; non quod alter esset prior altero, sed quod alter esset ex altero."

    Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967

  • * Hoc non est inaequalitas substantiae, sed ordo naturae; non quod alter esset prior altero, sed quod alter esset ex altero.

    Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967

  • "Extensionem concipere ut absolutum ex eo forte oritur quod spatium concipimus per modum substantiae" -- _Ad Des Bosses Ep_.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 08, June 1858 Various

  • Donatus, 'Parentibus modicis fuit ac praecipue patre, quem quidam opificem figulum, plures Magi cuiusdam viatoris initio mercennarium mox ob industriam generum tradiderunt egregieque substantiae silvis coemendis et apibus curandis auxisse reculam.'

    The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills

  • "Patebit non tantum mentes, sed etiam substantiae omnes in loco, non nisi per _operationem_ esse."

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 08, June 1858 Various

  • Quomodo substantiae in eo quod sint bonae sint cum non sint substan - tialia bona (London, 1928), pp. 44-45; and in De

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas 1925

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