adequation

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Just the mere fact of doing that, fills such a sense of adequation with our deep nature.

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  1. A making or being equal; an equivalence or equivalent. [Rare.] The principles of logic and natural reason tell us, that there must be a just proportion and adequation between the medium by which we prove, and the conclusion to be proved. Bp. Barlow, Remains, p. 125. It was the arme (not of King Henry) but King Edward the First, which is notoriously known to have been the adequation of a yard. [An erroneous statement.] Fuller, Worthies, Berkshire.

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  • Just the mere fact of doing that, fills such a sense of adequation with our deep nature. —  Matthieu Ricard on the habits of happiness
  • This consists always and only in adequation to truth; that is, in beauty. —  Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic
  • 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. —  Matthieu Ricard on the habits of happiness
  • "Thus, knowing the truth happens when knowledge, by virtue of an 'adequation' —  One Cosmos
  • In his Pre-Lenten reading for February 19th, The Holy Father defines truth: "Thomas Aquinas, as is well known, defined truth as the adequation of the intellect to reality. ...
 

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  1. from Latin adæquatio(n-), from adæquare, make equal: see adequate, adjective
 

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