10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «QUIDDITATIVE»
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quidditative in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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The Metaphysical Thought of Thomas Aquinas: From Finite ...
x1u. Quidditative. Knowledge. of. God. and. Analogical. Knowledge. We have
now examined Thomas's efforts to establish on philosophical grounds both the
fact that God exists and that he is one. If one grants Thomas this conclusion, one
may ...
2
Philosophy in the Middle Ages (Third Edition): The ...
For the specific reality is itself a certain quidditative entity. On the other hand, this
reality of an individual is primarily diverse from every quidditative entity. (This is
proved from the fact that whatever quidditative entity is understood—speaking ...
Arthur Hyman, James Jerome Walsh, Thomas Williams, 2010
3
Alessandro Achillini (1463-1512) and His Doctrine of ...
"74 As for Achillini's statement that Aristotle and Averroes say that an individual (
being) is not 'quidditative', since it is not predicated of anything else, I can find no
reference to any such term as 'quidditative'. Nevertheless, it is not difficult to see ...
Herbert Stanley Matsen, 1974
4
William of Ockham: The Metamorphosis of Scholastic Discourse
Simple and connotative concepts therefore differ as quidditative and connotati ve
; by the latter God's being is conceived determinately as absolutely first or
creative or as first cause or immortal or indestructible and so on, each signifying ...
namely, the strictly quidditatively predicable genera and differences of the
definitum.57 However, since connotative terms cannot have quidditative
definitions in this strict sense, it follows that a term can have a quidditative
definition in the strict ...
Gyula Klima Professor of Philosophy Fordham University, 2008
6
Metaphysical Investigations
rubber" is a quidditative predication, "This is softer than wood" a qualitative
predication. As was indicated in the previous chapter, such quidditative
predications specify the quiddity or essence of the subject of predication,
whereas qualitative ...
every quidditative entity."39 At the end of the paragraph he reinforces the claim: "[
t] his [individuating] entity, which in itself is an entity other than a quiddity or
quidditative entity, cannot constitute the whole, of which it is a part, in quidditative
...
Ludger Honnefelder, Rega Wood, Mechthild Dreyer, 1996
8
Aquinas on Human Self-Knowledge
So now we can see why Aquinas insists that quidditative self-knowledge is
achieved by recognizing the soul's immateriality: He thinks that the major
obstacle to quidditative self-knowledge is a failure to understand the human
soul's specifying ...
Therese Scarpelli Cory, 2013
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The Metaphysics and Natural Philosophy of John Buridan
( 1 ) A quidditative definition is an expression indicating precisely what a thing is (
quid est esse rei) by means of essential predicates. (2) These are the genus of
the definitum and the essential difference, or differences, [which are added] until
...
J. M. M. H. Thijssen, Jack Zupko, 2001
10
Speculative Grammar, Universal Grammar, and Philosophical ...
However, the various ways in which features of such quidditative-level
propositions were discussed are indices of convergence upon such a categorial
language. Thus there is a great deal of literature, some of it collected together by
Sten ...
Dino Buzzetti, Maurizio Ferriani, 1987
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Théophile Gautier, dandy oublié des lettres françaises
... phrase épatante : « Je dois avoir l'air d'un franc viédaze regardant voler les coquecigrues avec ma mine ahurie et quidditative. » Tudieu, voilà qui est parler ! «Télérama.fr, May 11»
