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Well, ex Elspetho semper aliquid novi, thinks I, who'd have believed it, and thank God she's on my side.
Watershed 2010
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Hence, esse essentiae is created first; next comes, through information, esse aliquid per essentiam; finally, the whole essence thus composed is placed in act.
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Per hoc enim quod intelligimus vel gaudemus, ad aliquod obiectum aliqualiter nos habere oportet: amor vero aliquid alicui vult; hoc enim amare dicimur cui aliquod bonum volumus, secundum modum praedictum.
Quitting Smoking 2009
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During the Middle Ages, it is customary for philosophers to refer to relations not only by Aristotle's term, ˜toward something™ (or ad aliquid, the verbatim Latin equivalent of pros ti), but also by two others as well:
Medieval Theories of Relations Brower, Jeffrey 2009
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˜Disposition™ (habitudo) or ˜relative disposition™ (habitudo relativa), which suggests that relations account for the way a thing ˜holds itself toward something™ (se habere ad aliquid);
Medieval Theories of Relations Brower, Jeffrey 2009
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These same considerations also help to explain why, in referring to the members of this category, Albert prefers the concrete terms ˜toward something™ (ad aliquid) and ˜relative™
Medieval Theories of Relations Brower, Jeffrey 2009
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Now the most general genus in the arrangement of this predicable is toward something (ad aliquid), or relative
Medieval Theories of Relations Brower, Jeffrey 2009
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Esse existentiae is the actualization of esse essentiae, just as esse aliquid per existentiam is the actualization of esse aliquid per essentiam, though this is not a matter of things, elements or different parts, but only of different intentions.
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Medievals refer to the predicates in question as ˜relative terms™ (ad aliquid or relativa), [9] and understand them, roughly speaking, as those terms whose true predication requires a comparison to something other than the subject of which they are predicated.
Medieval Theories of Relations Brower, Jeffrey 2009
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Sustainability of the Benguela: ex Africa semper aliquid novi.
smrtrthnu commented on the word aliquid
someone or something
July 30, 2009