单词 | discrete degree |
释义 | > as lemmasdiscrete degree 4. Metaphysics and Philosophy. Chiefly with reference to the writings of Emanuel Swedenborg: designating each of a series of degrees or planes of existence, conceived of as being qualitatively different from each other. Frequently in discrete degree. ΚΠ 1770 T. Hartley tr. E. Swedenborg Theosophic Lucubration xiv. 32 Those degrees which distinguish by order are called degrees of altitude, and also discrete or disjunct. 1788 N. Tucker tr. E. Swedenborg Wisdom of Angels iii. §236 In every Man from his Birth there are three Degrees of Altitude, or discrete Degrees, one above or within another. 1854 Spiritual Tel. 3 413 Ice is discreted from water, and water from steam, etc. Yet they are all the same thing on different discrete planes. 1856 L. H. Grindon Life xxvii. 245 Wherever things are differentiated by a discrete degree, the commencement of the new one is..on a higher level. 1921 New Philos. 24 57 Discrete degrees, although distinct from each other, are not disconnected from each other. 2005 A. M. T. Dibb Servetus, Swedenborg & Nature of God xi. 278 The doctrine of discrete degrees makes it possible for one thing to take on a certain reality on different planes. < as lemmas |
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