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Definition of Individuates
1. individuate [v] - See also: individuate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Individuates
Literary usage of Individuates
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Ontology Or the Theory of Being: An Introduction to General Metaphysics by Peter Coffey (1914)
"Yet it cannot be actual existence that individuates it. ... Moreover, what
individuates the nature must be essential to the latter, but actual existence is ..."
2. The History of the Works of the Learned (1741)
"That which individuates or identifies a Body is that Unity of ... the fame End.
That which individuates a Mind is the fame Unity of ..."
3. Ontology, Or, The Theory of Being; an Introduction to General Metaphysics by Peter Coffey (1914)
"But what individuates human nature in Socrates, or in Plato, ... In the opinion
of Thomists generally, the principle which individuates material things, ..."
4. The Conception of God: A Philosophical Discussion Concerning the Nature of by Josiah Royce, Joseph LeConte, George Holmes Howison, Sidney Edward Mezes (1902)
"Man individuates the objects of his knowledge because he is an ethical being.
... Our human love is a good name for what first individuates for us our ..."
5. The Metaphysics of the School by Thomas Harper (1879)
"Therefore, it is the substantial Form which principally individuates the Composite,
by individuating the ,/ Matter. * Furthermore, a sufficiently valid ..."
6. The Philosophical System of Antonio Rosmini-Serbati by Antonio Rosmini (1882)
"C. The form which determines and individuates the intellective principle—object
being (third kind of form, pure objective). "D. The form which determines ..."
7. Religion and Science: A Series of Sunday Lectures on the Relation of Natural by Joseph LeConte (1877)
"Again, by an inevitable law, a spark struggles upward, and, under the higher
conditions of the animal organism, individuates itself more completely, ..."
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