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Many relict species from the Tertiary Period are still present, including Pinus koraiensis, Taxus cuspidats*, Picea ajanensis, Quercus mongolica, Fraxinus mandshurica, Onoclea sensibilis and Osmunda asiatica.
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In the Inaugural Dissertation, he slashed through the Gordian knot by cutting nature into two halves, the mundus intelligibilis of metaphysics and the mundus sensibilis of science.
Kant's Philosophical Development Schönfeld, Martin 2007
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Nimis est infelix cui mors aeterna est sensibilis; nimis aerumnosus quem terrent continui de sua infelicitate horrores.
Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967
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According to St. Thomas Aquinas, the impression received by the eye (Species sensibilis) is spiritualized by a faculty called
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Reid, mistaking the doctrine of the Schoolmen as to perception -- he supposed that Scholasticism taught that the species sensibilis was that which is perceived, rather than that by which the sensible object is perceived -- went so far as to assert that sense perception is the same as intellectual judgment.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913
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Had Reid not misunderstood the import of the species sensibilis his appeal to "common sense" would have given him a greater affinity to the Schoolmen.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913
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The species sensibilis is not an efflux from the object, not a physical miniature of it — a view which was accepted by some interpreters of
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913
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In the centre was a patch of the sensitive fern (Onoclea sensibilis), while around this, and filling nearly the entire circle, was a magnificent thicket of the ostrich fern
Birds in the Bush Bradford Torrey 1877
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(_Onoclea struthiopteris_), with _sensibilis_ growing hidden and scattered underneath.
Birds in the Bush Bradford Torrey 1877
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Onoclea sensibilis (sensitive-fern), very common along the river sides; some on the gravelly shore of Heron Lake Is-land.
The Maine Woods 1858
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