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Inasmuch as "every existentia presupposes an essentia" (Schopenhauer 51), the empirical reality of human (deliberative) action rests on the tacit, indeed inscrutable premise of the
The Melancholic Gift: Freedom in Nineteenth-Century Philosophy and Fiction 2008
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Unde non cognoscit ea ut existentia aliqualiter in seipsis, sed ut existentia solum in potentia divina.
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Unde non cognoscit ea ut existentia aliqualiter in seipsis, sed ut existentia solum in potentia divina.
Archive 2005-08-01 2005
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Our existence, as well as that of all animals, is not one that lasts, it is only temporary, merely an existentia fluxa, which may be compared to a water-mill in that it is constantly changing.
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As the being, the existentia of these future people is conditioned by our instinct of sex in general, so is the nature, the essentia, of these same people conditioned by the selection that the individual makes for his satisfaction, that is to say, by love, and is thereby in every respect irrevocably established.
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Christ's Eucharistic Body (existentia corporis ad modum spiritus);
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy 1840-1916 1913
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The word energeia is not here employed in the Aristotelean sense (actus, as opposed to potentia, dynamis), for this would be practically identical with esse (existentia), and it is an open question among Catholic theologians whether there is one esse in Christ or two.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913
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/4/The writs of later days used the same language, and when it was objected, as it frequently was, to a suit by a bailee for a taking of bona et catalla sua, that it should have been for bona in custodia sua existentia, it was always answered that those in the Chancery would not frame a writ in that form.
The Common Law Oliver Wendell Holmes 1888
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With a certain degree of sophistry they answered that they did not doubt the possibility of witches, t: only demurred to what is their nature, and how they me to be such -- according to the scholastic jargon, that e question in respect to witches was not de existentia, but only de modo existendi.
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Qquichua expresses the real being of things, the _essentia_; as, _runap caynin_, the being of the human race, humanity in the abstract; but to convey the idea of actual being, the _existentia_ as united to the
American Hero-Myths A Study in the Native Religions of the Western Continent Daniel Garrison Brinton 1868
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