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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of sublate.

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  • Rather, what is of value in the thesis gets "sublated" by the antithesis in such a way as to re-emerge at a higher level, the "synthesis."

    Archive 2006-12-01 Mike L 2006

  • Rather, what is of value in the thesis gets "sublated" by the antithesis in such a way as to re-emerge at a higher level, the "synthesis."

    The top-five-philosophers meme Mike L 2006

  • It has recently been suggested that some metaphors are abstract associations, based on prerequisite subconscious associations or even sublated synesthetic perceptions (latent synesthesia).

    April Pierce: Synesthesia and Metaphor: Between Fact and Fiction (VIDEO) 2010

  • Note how the issue "war" is sublated by the tactical exigencies of Democrat-Republican.

    Stan Goff: Getting Off the Road 2009

  • The moral and-or practical issue that may lay at the heart of any public debate is sublated into the Game.

    Stan Goff: Getting Off the Road 2009

  • Hence the cautious “as if” - status of the purposiveness of nature in the aesthetic experience is sublated.

    Georg Friedrich Philipp von Hardenberg [Novalis] Gjesdal, Kristin 2009

  • That is, when something becomes it seems to possess aspects of both being and nothingness, and it is in this sense that the third category of such triads can be understood as containing the first two as sublated “moments.”

    Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Redding, Paul 2006

  • However, the autonomy of the Kantian ethical subject can also be seen as asserting a sublated form of self-will, namely in its will to form as well as to conform to the universal.

    The Kyoto School Davis, Bret W. 2006

  • (In Hegel's later terminology, one would say that the first two were “sublated” [aufgehoben] in the third).

    Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Redding, Paul 2006

  • In mid career Nishida used the language of dialectics to describe relations, while insisting that the opposed terms were not sublated into a higher unity.

    Nishida Kitarô Maraldo, John 2005

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