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单词 in rebus
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in rebusadv.

Brit. /ɪn ˈreɪbᵿs/, U.S. /ˌɪn ˈreɪbəs/
Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin in rēbus.
Etymology: < classical Latin in rēbus, especially as used in post-classical Latin by writers on philosophy such as Avicenna (12th cent. in Latin translation) and Duns Scotus (c1264–1308); < in in prep. + rēbus , ablative plural of rēs res n.1
Philosophy. Of a universal (universal adj. 2a): existing or considered as a real property in the individual objects that exemplify or instantiate it, rather than as something having a real existence separate from any such objects or merely as an idea or concept in the mind. Now also: designating or relating to the theory that universals exist as real properties in the objects which instantiate them rather than separately from those objects or merely mentally; = in re adv. 1b.
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1872 G. S. Morris tr. F. Ueberweg Hist. Philos. I. 413 Avicenna distinguishes several modes of generic existence, viz.: ante res, in rebus, and post res [Ger. Avicenna unterscheidet verschiedene Modi des Seins der genera: sie sind ante res, in rebus, post res].
1885 Mind 10 274 He took the fragment statically rather than dynamically, in pause and at term rather than in act, as the actuality of possibility rather than as the possibility..of actuality, and as universal ante res rather than as universal in rebus.
1904 W. James Coll. Ess. & Rev. (1920) 446 Like empiricism, it is individualistic and phenomenalistic; it places truth in rebus, and not ante rem.
1939 Jrnl. Philos. 36 286 Thomas Aquinas was quite familiar with this principle [sc. Occam's razor],..but did not apply it to the real existence of universal in rebus.
1954 Philos. Q. 4 162 His first chapter takes the form of a detailed discussion of ‘the Philosophy of Universals’ (i.e. the Aristotelian in rebus theory) and ‘the Philosophy of Resemblances’.
1992 S. Feldman in L. E. Goodman Neoplatonism & Jewish Thought 268 The Gersonidean version of the famous Avicennan formula would be that universals..exist in rebus only insofar as each individual in nature instantiates a formal structure found in the Active Intellect.
2011 D. W. Long Body Knowl. v. 115 The type of realism that Polanyi is here urging is probably closer to Aristotle's in rebus conception of universals than to any other interpretation of class concepts.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2021; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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