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‖ ens rationis Philos.|ɛnz rætɪˈəʊnɪs, ræʃ-|
Pl. entia rationis |ˈɛntɪə, ˈɛnʃɪə|.
[L., being of the mind: see ens.]
An entity of reason, a being that has no existence outside the mind (opp. ens reale). Cf. entity 3.
1565T. Harding Confutation Apol. C. of E. iii. v. fol. 144v, Disputations..about genus and species, and the rest of the universals.., whether they were entia relia [sic], or rationis. 1652N. Culverwel Lt. Nature 201 The soul..will set up Beings of its own, Entia Rationis; Reason's creatures. 1707–8Berkeley Philos. Commentaries (1944) No. 535 The distinction betwixt entia Realia & entia rationis may be made as properly now as ever. 1883F. H. Bradley Princ. Logic I. vi. 175 It is a metaphysical ens rationis, an abstract universal which can not be real. 1948Mind LVII. 364 Later the view that its [sc. the supersensible world's] existence is not even problematic, that it is a mere ens rationis, ‘a concept not an existent’, is considered. |