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  • John iii. 19, the place urged in the proof; which word mallon, “rather,” there, doth not institute a comparison between their love of darkness and light, as though they loved both, but darkness chiefly; but plainly intimates an opposition unto the love of light by a full love of darkness.

    The Death of Death in the Death of Christ 1616-1683 1967

  • She cud bee doen rite bishez iffn U had mallon an didnt shaer.

    NOM - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009

  • According to Diogenes Laertius (9.76), Timon held that Pyrrho's formula ou mallon (“no more is than is not”) was a determination to determine nothing, which promoted both an indifference to opinions and sensations, and Pyrrho's famous peace of mind (D.L. 9.65).

    Ancient Skepticism Groarke, Leo 2008

  • Cole, Thomas, 1967, Democritus and the Sources of Greek Anthropology (Cleveland). de Lacy, Phillip, 1958, ˜Ou mallon and the Antecedents of Ancient Scepticism,™ Phronesis 3: 59-71.

    Democritus Berryman, Sylvia 2004

  • Later philosophers adapted a Democritean phrase ou mallon or ˜no more™ in the argument that something that seems both P and not-P is ˜no more™ P than not-P.

    Democritus Berryman, Sylvia 2004

  • It was possible to state the charge of inconsistency in terms of the ou mallon formula.

    SKEPTICISM IN ANTIQUITY PHILLIP DE LACY 1968

  • The skepti - cal ou mallon, he says, is not to be taken as an affirma - tion or a negation but rather as a report of the skeptic's inability to decide between conflicting statements.

    SKEPTICISM IN ANTIQUITY PHILLIP DE LACY 1968

  • * Ho pneumatikos, ho dia Pneuma zon, photistheis ton noun dia pneumatos, ou monen ten emphuton kai anthropinen sunesin echon, alla mallon ten charistheisan pneumatiken, hen ton piston psuchais emballei to Hagion Pneuma;: [4882] 1

    Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967

  • He pason apodeixeon echenguotera, mallon d ', he mone apodeixis ousa tunchanei.

    Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967

  • * [6517] Hēdonē mallon en ēremia estin, ē en kinēsei.

    Of Communion with God the Father, Son and Holy Ghost 1616-1683 1965

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