Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to existence or entity: usually opposed to objective in the old sense of the latter word.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Considered as pure entity; abstracted from all circumstances.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Considered as pure
entity ; abstracted from all circumstances, that is, regarded as entity alone, apart from attendant circumstances.
Etymologies
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Examples
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The first, the so-called “entitative graphs,” is based on disjunction and negation.
Nobody Knows Nothing 2009
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A version of the entitative graphs later appeared in G. Spencer Brown's Laws of Form, without anything remotely like proper citation of Peirce.
Nobody Knows Nothing 2009
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This, then, is that which by Mr Goodwin is here asserted, “That if there be such an effectual real working of the Spirit and grace of God in us to the producing of any acts of the wills of men, they cannot be moral;” that is, they cannot have any goodness in them beyond that which is entitative.
The Doctrine of the Saints��� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed 1616-1683 1966
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The motion of all bodies, whether small or great, is due to the entitative force stored up in them, and the energy they exercise is in proportion to the stored-up force.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 595, May 28, 1887 Various
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Surely, no scientist who considers what motion is can admit such a fallacious statement, for motion is simply "position in space changing;" it is a phenomenon, the result of the application of entitative force to a body.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 595, May 28, 1887 Various
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The real distinction of the finite from the Infinite opposes every form of exaggerated monism, while the entitative contingency and dependence of the creature on the Creator refutes an exaggerated dualism.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery 1840-1916 1913
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Both existence and essence are realities, the one in the entitative order, the other in the quiddative order.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913
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As good a classification as any other is that based on the analogy of entitative and operative perfections in creatures -- the former qualifying nature or essence as such and abstracting from activity, the latter referring especially to the activity of the nature in question.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913
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Nothing need be added to what has been said above concerning self-existence, infinity, unity, and simplicity (which belong to the entitative class); but eternity, immensity, and immutability (also of the entitative class), together with the active attributes, whether physical or moral, connected with the Divine intellect and will, call for some explanation here.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913
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I thought that maybe this is my entitative idea and because of the ideology concept in the real world, I could not achieve my dream.
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