principium

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It sees through the form of the phenomenon, the principium individuationis.

From The World As Will And Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Schopenhauer, Arthur

We saw before that hatred and wickedness are conditioned by egoism, and egoism rests on the entanglement of knowledge in the principium individuationis.

From The World As Will And Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Schopenhauer, Arthur

Unum vero quod est principium numeri, addit supra substantiam rationem mensurae, quae est propria passio quantitatis, et primo invenitur in unitate.

From Ontology or the Theory of Being by Coffey, Peter

Or, to put the question more exactly, as well as more gravely and more pertinently, Are Space and Time the true principia individui, and is Time preëminently the ultimate principium individuationis?

From International Congress of Arts and Science, Volume I Philosophy and Metaphysics by Various

It is to the individual subsisting person or thing that all the actions proceeding from the latter are ascribed: actiones sunt suppositorum: the “suppositum” or person is the principium quod agit.

From Ontology or the Theory of Being by Coffey, Peter