| 单词 | signate matter |
| 释义 | > as lemmassignate matter 2. Scholastic Philosophy. Particular to an individual person. Usually in signate matter.Chiefly with reference to the philosophy of Thomas Aquinas. ΚΠ 1711 tr. S. Werenfels Disc. Logomachys 101 Then follow..the States, Amplications,..Signate Matter [L. materiae signatae],..and whole Cart-loads of Qualitys. 1890 Cent. Dict. 3662/3 Signate, designate, determinate, or individual matter, that which is diverse, though not in any character different, in all individuals. 1914 tr. St. Thomas Aquinas Summa Theologica III. xxxi. 69 But bodily substance is something signate. Therefore Christ's flesh was in Adam, Abraham, and the other patriarchs, according to something signate. 1945 W. Farrell Compan. to Summa I. vii. 157 The human person..is distinguished from all other human persons in the way proper to human nature, that is by signate matter. 1996 Hist. Philos. Q. 13 9 The common matter that belongs to the human species is flesh and bone, while the signate matter that individuates this man..is this flesh and these bones. < as lemmas |
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