单词 | per aliud |
释义 | per aliudadv. Chiefly Philosophy. By or in another entity; with reference to something else; extrinsically. Frequently opposed to per se. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > existence > extrinsicality or externality > extrinsically [phrase] per aliud1851 1851 Southern Literary Messenger June 435/1 It [sc. the Ens] was no one of the phenomena..which surrounded him; for all these were resolvable; they existed per aliud, not per se. 1890 W. James Princ. Psychol. II. xvii. 42 To say that we feel a sensation's seat to be ‘in the brain’..or ‘under the skin’ is to say as much about it..as to say that it is a mile off. These are all secondary perceptions, ways of defining the sensation's seat per aliud. 1948 Mind 57 127 St. Thomas's proof [is] that the existence of finite beings, since it is per aliud, must be derived from something that exists per se. 1996 Speculum 71 489 On Schufreider's reading, the Monologion begins by rising from particular beings that exist per aliud to a Supreme Being that exists per se. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adv.1851 |
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