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In the second place, since God chooses, from all the essences eternally constituted as such by His intellect, those that He will actualize over time, on the basis of His free will, one respectus is such from eternity, while the other takes place in time.

Hitler's Angel (A Meta Christmas Carol) 2009

˜Outward-looking-ness™ (respectus), which draws on a visual metaphor to suggest that relations are that in virtue of which a substance ˜looks out toward something™

Medieval Theories of Relations Brower, Jeffrey 2009

And here Henry lists four modes: the distinction between species and genus; the distinction between living and being in creatures; the distinction between a suppositum and its nature or essence; and the distinction between a respectus (relation) and the essence on which it is founded (Macken 1981).

Hitler's Angel (A Meta Christmas Carol) 2009

San Francisco-based Respect (www. respectus.corn) has married retro-cool plastics, the bowling-ball-bag esthetic and durable padding to create a handsome tote just for laptops.

Good Looking 2008

Forms like quantity, whiteness, alteration, diminution and so on belong to the first group, while relations of reason and respectus, lke causation, difference, and so on, fall under the secondo one.

William Penbygull Conti, Alessandro 2006

Sunt et alij plures diuersi fructus, quorum penes nos non est respectus nec vsus.

The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

The first important feature of Burley's earlier ontology is his belief that apart from substances, quantities, and qualities, the categories do not contain entities in the full sense of the term, but respectus reales, i.e., real aspects of absolute things.

Walter Burley Conti, Alessandro 2004

Sunt et alij plures diuersi fructus, quorum penes nos non est respectus nec vsus.

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

For spatial relations are expressed in terms of accidens, respectus and funda - mentum, all logical rather than mathematical symbols.

SPACE SALOMON BOCHNER 1968

It comes from the Latin - respectus - the act of looking back.

Pharyngula 2008