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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The state or quality of inhering together.

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  • Davis mentions their equally possessing the divine essence, and their inability to disagree, but for him the main factor is that the three enjoy the relation of perichoresis, which he expounds as meaning “co-inherence, mutual indwelling, interpenetrating, merging” (2006, 72).

    Trinity Tuggy, Dale 2009

  • Thus we find the Indian sage, Kanada, the reputed founder of the Vaiseshika philosophy, reducing all things to substance, quality, action, generality particularity, co-inherence, and non-existence, while the

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913

  • -- The chief example is the co-inherence of gravity with inertia in all material bodies.

    Logic Deductive and Inductive Carveth Read 1889

  • Clearly, each of these is constituted by the co-existence or co-inherence of a multitude of properties, some of which are selected as the basis of their definitions.

    Logic Deductive and Inductive Carveth Read 1889

  • So far as species are recognised, then, they present a complex co-inherence of qualities, which is, in one aspect, a logical problem; and, in another, a logical datum; and, coming more naturally under the head of Natural Kinds than any other, they must be mentioned in this place.

    Logic Deductive and Inductive Carveth Read 1889

  • Consequently, the co-inherence of two attributes is but the co-existence of the two states of consciousness implied in their meaning: with the difference, however, that this co-existence is sometimes potential only, the attribute being considered as in existence, though the fact on which it is grounded may not be actually, but only potentially present.

    A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive John Stuart Mill 1839

  • (d) The co-inherence of properties in Natural Kinds; which we call the constitution, defining characters, or specific nature of such things.

    Logic Deductive and Inductive Carveth Read 1889

  • (_ante_, chap.i. § 5, and chap. ii § 4): Substance, whether as the foundation of attributes, or as genus and species, implies the predication of co-inherence, which is one mode of _Co-existence_.

    Logic Deductive and Inductive Carveth Read 1889

  • _is_, is owing to the co-inherence therein of any two powers; but that it is _that_ particular thing arises from the proportions in which these powers are co-present, either as predominance or as reciprocal neutralization; but under the modification of twofold power to which magnetism itself is, as the thesis to its antithesis.

    Hints towards the formation of a more comprehensive theory of life. Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1803

  • Their co-inherence is not to be considered an ultimate fact; for, "since everything which occurs is determined by laws of causation and collocations of the original causes, it follows that the co-existences observable amongst effects cannot themselves be the subject of any similar set of laws distinct from laws of causation" (B.

    Logic Deductive and Inductive Carveth Read 1889

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