Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A making or being equal; an equivalence or equivalent.
Wiktionary
- n. equivalence
- n. linguistics A change in the meaning of a term depending upon context
- n. obsolete The act of equalizing; act or result of making adequate; an equivalent.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. obsolete The act of equalizing; act or result of making adequate; an equivalent.
Etymologies
- Latin adaequatio, from ad + aequatio. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Thus, knowing the truth happens when knowledge, by virtue of an 'adequation”
“Beneath this notion of the pact and therefore of adequation, the notion of veiling/unveiling attunes the entire Seminar to the Heideggerian discourse on the truth.”
“Overcoming metaphysics never meant for Heidegger thinking without the requirements of adequation; it never meant not reasoning, denying the realm of presence.”
“His enterprise is subtle not aiming at “impossible,” but rather concerning possibilities yet reserved thinking what adequation presupposes, what presence covers up, naming what up until then had received no name, unfolding the appropriation of the originary.”
“Bolzano combines his doctrine that the form [A has b] is common to all propositions with a correspondence theory of truth, whereby he, like Aristotle, avoids speaking of correspondence or adequation.”
“But this truth is the adequation of the thing and its eternal reason, and thus an external light, the light of the Supreme Truth, God, must be shed on both the thing and its eternal reason if it is to be visible to the mind.”
“Modern philosophy is a criticism of truth as adequation.”
“It means familiarization with a new way of being, new way of perceiving things which is more an adequation with reality, with interdependence, with the stream and continuous transformation which our being and our consciousness is.”
“Just the mere fact of doing that, fills such a sense of adequation with our deep nature.”
“This consists always and only in adequation to truth; that is, in beauty.”
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