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Tusi mentions two types of argumentation that the tradition describes as assertoric proof or quia (burhan inni) and demonstrative proof or propter quid (burhan limmi), the former is an inference from effect to cause and the latter is from cause to effect.
Mulla Sadra Rizvi, Sajjad 2009
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_ [1] The later chronology of Assyria has long been fixed, thanks to the lists of _limmi_, or archons, who gave their names in succession to their years of office.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" Various
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Lists of the limmi for the years 909-666 b.c. have been discovered (Sayce, "Early History of the Hebrews", 147).
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913
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Babylonia by the reign of the kings; in Assyria, regular officials were appointed every year, calleed limmi, by whose name the year was known, just as the consuls in Rome and the eponymous archons in
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913
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From Asia Minor it probably spread to Greece; at all events, the eponymous archons at Athens, after whom the several years were named, corresponded exactly with the Assyrian _limmi_ or eponyms.
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