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The word 'Principium' means the _pege theoteos_, the ultimate Cause or
Philosophy and Religion Six Lectures Delivered at Cambridge Hastings Rashdall
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[3] I venture thus to translate 'Principium' (_arche_); in Abelard and his disciple Peter the Lombard, the famous Master of the Sentences, the word is 'Potentia' (L.
Philosophy and Religion Six Lectures Delivered at Cambridge Hastings Rashdall
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Art. 4) explains 'Principium' by 'Potentia generandi Filium.'
Philosophy and Religion Six Lectures Delivered at Cambridge Hastings Rashdall
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As he does this, he says the words newly assigned to each part of the design (“Christus heri et hodie” at the vertical arm, “Principium et finis” at the horizontal, and so forth.)
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˜Principium™ is a noun and, as such, might be expected to pick out a common nature, but although a unity, a point, a source and a heart can all be called
Medieval Theories of Analogy Ashworth, E. Jennifer 2009
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Principium Sapientiae, Gnomon, 27: 65-76 = D.J. Furley and R.A. A.len, (eds.) 1970, Studies in Presocratic Philosophy, London:
Alcmaeon Huffman, Carl 2008
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And the Easterns object to the double procession itself only in so far as any one means thereby to deny "quod solus Pater est divinarum personarum, Principium et Fons," -- riza kai pege.
ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus 1819-1893 2001
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* Principium ergo generale est, conditum esse hominem ut sit sociale animal: [1082] 1
Commentary on Genesis - Volume 1 1509-1564 1996
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[137] "Principium ergo generale est, conditum esse hominem ut sit sociale animal."
Commentary on Genesis - Volume 1 1509-1564 1996
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Sometimes it has been said that there is a striking difference between the kind of reasoning employed by the Hippocratic doctors and that of the early Greek philosophers (a particularly notable expression of this view is F.M. Cornford's Principium sapientiae).
Dictionary of the History of Ideas DAVID FURLEY 1968
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