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I have virtually no personal experience in the VC world, almost have a positive image of them when reading guys like Fred Wilson or Jeff Clavier but too many times have i read stories of burnt entrepreneurs … It certainly means that, in general, this business lacks affectio societatis and Dave, by proposing a fund made up of users, that would fund companies in a democratic fashion is touching on something very important.
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In pract.med. haec affectio nostris temporibus frequentissima, ergo maxime pertinet ad nos hujus curationem intelligere.
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Such was the affectio for Brunetto that he is pained to see him in this state, 'or m'accora'.
Don't I know You From Somewhere? Miglior acque 2007
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Such was the affectio for Brunetto that he is pained to see him in this state, 'or m'accora'.
Archive 2007-01-01 Miglior acque 2007
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But one can't fully understand what the affectio iustitiae is until Aquinas and Scotus are compared on a further point.
John Duns Scotus Williams, Thomas 2007
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Immo etiam maiori aliena fides et affectio ex causa prodet, sicut paralitico qui per tegulas ante Dominum depositus fuit, quem Dominus curavit, secutus fidem eorum qui eum portabant. back
A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005
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Melancholia Erotica vel quae cum amore est, duplex est: prima quae ab aliis forsan non meretur nomen melancholiae, est affectio eorum quae pro objecto proponunt Deum et ideo nihil aliud curant aut cogitant quam Deum, jejunia, vigilias: altera ob mulieres.
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The two affections are fundamental inclinations in the will: the affectio commodi, or affection for the advantageous, and the affectio iustitiae, or affection for justice.
John Duns Scotus Williams, Thomas 2007
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Morbo ingruenti affectio scorbutica auxilium tulit.
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Tr. The Latin is: “Cum prior res ipsa sit, posterior aliquarum rerum, vel in actu primo vel secundo, modus seu affectio,” — “Since the former is the thing itself, the latter a mode or affection of some things,” etc. —
A Dissertation on Divine Justice 1616-1683 1967
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