principium

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Tam in ingressu Sacerdotis ad altare, quam ante principium Missae, reverentia Sacerdotis debet esse profunda capitis et corporis, non capitis tantum, inclinatio, juxta rubricam 8.

From The Irish Ecclesiastical Record, Volume 1, January 1865 by Various

It is one, not with the unity of an object or of a concept, but as that which lies outside of space and time, beyond the principium individuationis, that is, the possibility of plurality.

From Schopenhauer by Whittaker, Thomas

In nullo enim alio natura ab arte videtur differre, nisi quia natura est principium intrinsecum, et ars est principium extrinsicum.

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

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