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Of course, almost any novel can be called “historical,” in that the work of memory is always involved; and anything transmogrified by memory becomes, indeed, fiction — from the Latin word fictio, which means “shaping.”
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Of course, almost any novel can be called “historical,” in that the work of memory is always involved; and anything transmogrified by memory becomes, indeed, fiction — from the Latin word fictio, which means “shaping.”
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The use-values of commodities furnish the material for a special study, that of the commercial knowledge of commodities (footnote by Marx: In bourgeois societies the economic fictio juris prevails, that everyone, as a buyer, possesses an encylocpaedic knowledge of commodities).
A Bland and Deadly Courtesy skzbrust 2010
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The Latin for a construction is fictum, from fictio.
April 11th, 2009 m_francis 2009
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The use-values of commodities furnish the material for a special study, that of the commercial knowledge of commodities (footnote by Marx: In bourgeois societies the economic fictio juris prevails, that everyone, as a buyer, possesses an encylocpaedic knowledge of commodities).
skzbrust: Capital Volume 1 Part 1 Chapter 1 Section 1 Post 1 skzbrust 2010
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I saw a reference to Sci-Fi Overdrive, a science fictio [...]
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To preserve and safeguard as far as possible the letter as well as the spirit of the complete "expropriation" advocated by St. Francis, the popes adopted the fictio juris of assuming to themselves the ownership of all goods bestowed upon the friars.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913
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For Dante poetry was _nihil aliud quam fictio rhetorica in musicaque posita_.
Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic Benedetto Croce 1909
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This achievement could lay the groundwork for the "bionic eye," and another element of science fictio ...
arasbaras commented on the word fictio
The attribution of rational traits to non-rational creatures.
February 18, 2016