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  • His harmonic organization, like that of his contemporaries, often strains the traditional modal framework, and his works abound with problems of musica ficta.

    Archive 2009-06-01 Lu 2009

  • My understanding, though, is that although the Eastern Roman law recognized certain supra-individual juristic persons, that this was quite limited, tied to some sort of concession theory, or a characterization of all such persons as either ‘persona ficta’ or ‘artificial.’

    Left-Libertarianism Comes to Cato 2008

  • Chatton criticized this theory relentlessly, primarily on the ground that concepts as ficta are an unnecessary intermediary between the cognizer and the thing cognized, such that the cognizer would be immediately aware only of the general concept, and not of the individuals picked out by the general concept.

    Walter Chatton Keele, Rondo 2007

  • These notiones are representative fictions (ficta) that philosophers use to better understand the nature of individuals.

    John of Salisbury Guilfoy, Kevin 2005

  • Some, like T. Correa (1587) differentiated two kinds of imita - tion; one is literal, the other one free, imitatio simulata et ficta.

    MIMESIS W. TATARKIEWICZ 1968

  • “When data are given you, why do you seek for ficta?”

    THE COUNTER-ENLIGHTENMENT ISAIAH BERLIN 1968

  • Ad ea Jugurtha, tametsi regem ficta locutum intellegebat et ipse longe aliter animo agitabat, tamen pro tempore benigne respondit.

    C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino 86 BC-34? BC Sallust

  • Nonnulli ficta et haec et multa praeterea existimabant ab iis, qui Ciceronis invidiam, quae postea orta est, leniri credebant atrocitate sceleris eorum, qui poenas dederant.

    C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino 86 BC-34? BC Sallust

  • Ac mihi quidem, [23] tametsi haudquaquam par gloria sequitur scriptorem et actorem rerum, tamen in primis arduum videtur res gestas scribere; primum quod facta dictis exaequanda sunt, dehinc quia plerique, quae delicta reprehenderis, malivolentia et invidia dicta putant; [24] ubi de magna virtute atque gloria bonorum memores, quae sibi quisque facilia factu putat, aequo animo accipit, supra ea [25] veluti ficta pro falsis ducit.

    C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino 86 BC-34? BC Sallust

  • Et cum [cum _omitted_ R2] illuc peruenisset, cum magno gaudio et caritate non ficta susceptus est.

    The Latin & Irish Lives of Ciaran Translations Of Christian Literature. Series V. Lives Of The Celtic Saints Anonymous

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