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  • The translator of Averroës in 1481 used the word assimilatio; G. Fracastoro wrote in 1555 that it is irrelevant sive imitari, sive representare dicamus.

    MIMESIS W. TATARKIEWICZ 1968

  • Nicholas of Cusa thus combines the metaphors of assimilatio and mensuratio in his account of what provides the cognitive norms or criteria for human knowing.

    Cusanus, Nicolaus [Nicolas of Cusa] Miller, Clyde Lee 2009

  • Supposedly complementary, assimilatio and mensura give no obvious answer to what provides the measure for the content and validity of our knowledge ” is it the things known or our knowing minds?

    Cusanus, Nicolaus [Nicolas of Cusa] Miller, Clyde Lee 2009

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