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‖ post rem Philos.
[med.L. (Albertus Magnus) lit. ‘after the thing’.]
Used, often post-positively, of universals considered as concepts intuited from individual instances, as opposed to their having real existence either prior to the individual instance (see ante rem) or only as experienced in individual instances (see in re (c) s.v. in Latin prep.).
1902W. James Var. Relig. Exper. 523 For religion generally..the word ‘judgment’ here means no such bare academic verdict or platonic appreciation as it means in Vedantic or modern absolutist systems; it carries, on the contrary, execution with it, is in rebus as well as post rem, and operates ‘causally’ as partial factor in the total fact. 1927[see ante rem]. 1931S. Beckett Proust 60 The Baudelarian [sic] unity is a unity ‘post rem’, a unity abstracted from plurality. 1941E. C. Thomas Hist. Schoolmen vi. 123 There remains a third aspect of Universals, generally described as Nominalist, which posits the Universal ‘post rem’. 1952R. I. Aaron Theory of Universals xii. 218 Nevertheless it [sc. the quality ‘human’] is post rem and, to a certain degree, ‘the workmanship of the mind’. |