Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Equality of power or force.
- noun In logic, identity of meaning of two or more propositions.
- noun In mathematics, equality of length with parallelism of direction.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Equality of power, force, signification, or application.
- noun (Logic) Sameness of signification of two or more propositions which differ in language.
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- noun The condition of being
equipollent ; equality of power, force, signification, or application. - noun logic Sameness of
signification of two or morepropositions whichdiffer inlanguage .
Etymologies
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Examples
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And in the equipollence of God all pressures and temperatures are even because they are governed and controlled by God.
The Sacred Promise Phd Gary E. Schwartz 2011
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And in the equipollence of God all pressures and temperatures are even because they are governed and controlled by God.
The Sacred Promise Phd Gary E. Schwartz 2011
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And in the equipollence of God all pressures and temperatures are even because they are governed and controlled by God.
The Sacred Promise Phd Gary E. Schwartz 2011
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And in the equipollence of God all pressures and temperatures are even because they are governed and controlled by God.
The Sacred Promise Phd Gary E. Schwartz 2011
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From here the step is not far to Dedekind's view that equipollence is a sufficient condition for equinumerosity.
Slices of Matisse gerard varni 2009
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For Bolzano, equipollence and “having exactly the same kind of construction” (die ganz gleiche Entstehungsart haben) are taken together as a sufficient condition for infinite sets being equinumerous or having the same cardinal number.
Slices of Matisse gerard varni 2009
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(The inclusion is strict because of the ˜equipollence™ constraint.)
Analytic Philosophy in Early Modern India Ganeri, Jonardon 2009
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What is new is Abelard's contention that modal discussions should proceed by distinguishing the different possible readings of modal sentences, moving on to consider their quantity, quality, and conversion as well as their equipollence and any other relations holding between them on these different readings.
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After Abelard, equipollence and other relations between modal sentences were commonly presented with the help of the square of opposition, which Abelard mentions though it does not appear as such in his works.
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In this scenario cardinals are implemented as equivalence classes under equipollence and are (big) sets.
Quine's New Foundations Forster, Thomas 2006
oroboros commented on the word equipollence
Equipollent means equal in force, power, effectiveness, or significance; 2. Logic: Validly derived from each other, deducible. 3. Equivalent.
E.g., zero and infinity are not equal, they are equipollent.
August 20, 2007