metabasis

• +Transliteration: metabasis eis allo genos. —  Plato and Platonism
• Certain philosophers have, nevertheless, allowed themselves the liberty of making such a saltus (metabasis eis allo gonos). —  The Critique of Pure Reason
• [37] Wherever A = B, and A is not = B, are equally demonstrable, the premise in each undeniable, the induction evident, and the conclusion legitimate -- the result must be, either that contraries can both be true, (which is absurd,) or that the faculty and forms of reasoning employed are inapplicable to the subject -- i.e. that there is a metabasis eis allo genos. —  Biographia Literaria
• Such "aesthetic" qualities, by what we might call in logical phrase, metabasis eis allo genos, + a derivation into another kind of matter, transform themselves, in the temper of the patient the hearer or spectator, into terms of ethics, into the sphere of the desires and the will, of the moral taste, engendering, nursing [272] there, strictly moral effects, such conditions of sentiment and the will as Plato requires in his City of the Perfect, or quite the opposite, but hardly in any case indifferent, conditions. —  Plato and Platonism
• Col.Eph. Heb.) need not yet necessarily be a [Greek: metabasis eis allo genos]; for the beginning of things [Greek: archê] and their purpose form the real force to which their origin is due (principle [Greek: archê]). —  History of Dogma, Volume 1 (of 7)

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