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  • Well, ab abusu ad usum non valet consequentia, okay?

    Cheeseburger Gothic » Gentlemen’s Club. 2010

  • In answer to those who claim that evil cannot be introduced into a divinely created world, Bayle appeals to the modal principle ab actu ad potentiam valet consequentia (from the actual to the possible is a valid deduction).

    This, About The Man I Met Out Here In Nearly Nowhere 2009

  • He has lost ground at the latter end of the day by pursuing his point too far, like the Prince of Conde at the battle of Senneffe: from immoral plays to no plays -- _ab abusu ad usum, non valet consequentia_.

    English literary criticism Various

  • Consilium Dei universum de omnibus quae ad suam ipsius gloriam, quaeque ad hominum salutem, fidem, vitamque sunt necessaria, aut expresse in Scriptura continetur, aut consequentia bona et necessaria derivari potest a Scriptura; cui nihil deinceps addendum est, seu novis a spiritu revelationibus, sive traditionibus hominum.

    The Creeds of the Evangelical Protestant Churches. 1889

  • Consilium Dei universum de omnibus quae ad suam ipsius gloriam, quaeque ad hominum salutem, fidem, vitamque sunt necessaria, aut expresse in Scriptura continetur, aut consequentia bona et necessaria derivari potest a Scriptura; cui nihil deinceps addendum est, seu novis a spiritu revelationibus, sive traditionibus hominum.

    The Creeds of the Evangelical Protestant Churches. 1889

  • This is a maxim of a sure and never-failing verity: Ab actu ad potentiam valet consequentia: That which has actually been endured, may be endured.

    Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. V. 1634-1716 1823

  • * Ab actu ad potentiam valet consequentia: [336] 1

    Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. V. 1634-1716 1823

  • Now, say all decent logicians, from a universal to a particular _valet consequentia_, _all_ scissors were bad: _ergo_,

    Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers Thomas De Quincey 1822

  • Now, say all decent logicians, from a universal to a particular _valet consequentia_, _all_ scissors were bad: _ergo_,

    Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers — Volume 1 Thomas De Quincey 1822

  • Now my complaint is that our systematic divines transfer the paragraph 4 to the paragraphs 2 and 3, interpreting 'proprio sensu et ad totum' what is affirmed 'sensu metaphorico et ad partem', that is, 'ad consequentia

    The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge Henry Nelson Coleridge 1820

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