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  • ˜Comparison™ (comparatio), which has psychological overtones, and so is often (though not exclusively) used by conceptualists;

    Medieval Theories of Relations Brower, Jeffrey 2009

  • Circa has arbores excolitur Balsamum, cuius liquoris comparatio nusquam scitur contineri sub coelo.

    The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

  • Not content merely to interpret the major sources such as Aristotle and Plato, nor even to limit himself to the “comparatio” tradition which sought to delineate the major differences between those two schools of thought, Patrizi used his linguistic, historical and humanistic skills to recover, study and make available a great many sources which he believed (rightly or wrongly) to have dated from the pre-Platonic and pre-Socratic period.

    Francesco Patrizi Purnell, Fred 2004

  • Circa has arbores excolitur Balsamum, cuius liquoris comparatio nusquam scitur contineri sub coelo.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • In his logical works he translates ἀναλογία as comparatio or proportio, ἀναλογον as proportionale.

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas ARMAND MAURER 1968

  • Heinsii et aliorum correctiones minus necessarias in uerbis Ouidianis, quas accuratior codicum inter se comparatio, opus sane immensi laboris, extrudet '.

    The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid

  • Sed et videre non tantum nobis esset desiderabile, nisi cognovissemus quantum esset malum non videre; et bene valere autem male valentis experientia honorabilius efficit, et lucem tenebrarum comparatio et vitam mortis.

    History of Dogma, Volume 2 (of 7) Adolph Harnack 1890

  • Surely of the most of them we may say, as once Arnobius spake of the Gentiles, _apud vos optimi censentur quos comparatio pessimorum sic facit_.

    The Covenants And The Covenanters Covenants, Sermons, and Documents of the Covenanted Reformation Various 1876

  • Now, my Lords, if there be a convicium at all, it consists in the comparatio or comparison of the

    Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character Ramsay, Edward B 1874

  • Thus we shall not be able to discover whether the things are identical or different, in agreement or opposition, etc., from the mere conception of the things by means of comparison (comparatio), but only by distinguishing the mode of cognition to which they belong, in other words, by means of transcendental reflection.

    The Critique of Pure Reason Immanuel Kant 1764

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