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Definition of Potences
1. potence [n] - See also: potence
Lexicographical Neighbors of Potences
Literary usage of Potences
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The New American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge by George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana (1862)
"Logically antecedent to being, as one of its potences or powers, is the possibility
of being (dot ... These three potences are at the basis of all, in idea; ..."
2. The American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge edited by George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana (1883)
"Logically antecedent to being, as one of its potences or powers, is the possibility
of being (da» ... These three potences are at the basis of all, in idea; ..."
3. The Philosophy of History in France and Germany by Robert Flint (1874)
"How this is done,—how Schelling distinguishes in God an eternal ground or nature
which is in itself dark and unintelligent, three moments or potences, ..."
4. The Philosophy of History in France and Germany by Robert Flint (1874)
"How this is done,—how Schelling distinguishes in God an eternal ground or nature
which is in itself dark and unintelligent, three moments or potences, ..."
5. Half Truths and the Truth: Lectures on the Origin and Development of by Jacob Merrill Manning (1872)
"... in its self-evolution through the three potences. And in each branch of this
twofold evolution there are three successive stages, called spheres, ..."
6. A History of Philosophy in Epitome by Albert Schwegler (1879)
"The real side developes itself according to three potences (a potence, or
power, .indicates a definite quantitative difference of subjectivity and ..."
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