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  • First, the theory falls afoul of one of Reid's own methodological strictures, namely, that a theory must adhere to Newton's regulae philosophandi, or rules of philosophizing (Inquiry, 12).

    Reid on Memory and Personal Identity Copenhaver, Rebecca 2009

  • Aquinas accepts Aristotle's notion that every virtue is a mean between too much and too little, and he constantly stresses that it is reason -- with the principles and rules (regulae) it understands -- that settles the mean and thus determines what is too much or too little.

    Aquinas' Moral, Political, and Legal Philosophy Finnis, John 2005

  • I do not suggest that we can identify a credal formula that is somehow wholly independent of the structure and wording of the baptismal questions or the regulae fidei; simply that such a template does not account for the overall style of the Syro-Asian statements of faith as we have them, and that a eucharistic context for their Vorlage does so rather better.

    The Creed and the Eucharist in the Fourth and Fifth Centuries Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms Universität, Bonn 2004

  • A council seeking a clear statement of what was taken for granted as a measure of orthodoxy might well look not only to earlier regulae or to the shape of the baptismal interrogation but to the eucharistic prayer; a theology identified as failing to comply with the pattern of such a prayer would stand self-condemned as a failure in piety, not simply in accuracy.

    The Creed and the Eucharist in the Fourth and Fifth Centuries Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms Universität, Bonn 2004

  • This observation has been made for thou - sands of years and the principle of law arising from the fact was already recognized in the “rule of the old law” (regulae juris antique) in the Digest of Justin - ian.

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas PAUL FORIERS 1968

  • "Natura enim non nisi parendo vincitur; et quod in contemplatione instar causae est; id in operatione instar regulae est."

    Surgical Anatomy Joseph Maclise

  • "Praecepta et regulae ad praedicatores verbi divini informandos", which first appeared in Paris in 1701, and last at Augsburg in 1763, in octavo.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize 1840-1916 1913

  • Among his literary works, none of which have as yet been printed, are worthy of mention: "De substantialibus regulae monachalis", preserved in the Durham

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 15: Tournely-Zwirner 1840-1916 1913

  • Omnino enim magna regulae est ueritas in rebus incorporalibus distantias effici differentiis non locis.

    The Theological Tractates and The Consolation of Philosophy Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius 1908

  • The rules, _regulae_, of St. Benedict, are worthy of special consideration, since they constitute the real foundation of his success and of his fame.

    A Short History of Monks and Monasteries Alfred Wesley Wishart 1899

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