principium

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We have found that voluntary justice has its inmost source in a certain degree of penetration of the principium individuationis, while the unjust remain entirely involved in this principle.

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

He sees not the thing-in-itself but the phenomenon in time and space, the principium individuationis, and in the other forms of the principle of sufficient reason.

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

The archeus faber of Van Helmont, the astrum internum of Crollius, the principium energoumenon of Michael Alberti, the substantia energetica naturæ of Glisson, may all be referred to this unseen but powerful agency.

From Curiosities of Medical Experience by Millingen, J. G. (John Gideon)

We may, then, define efficient cause as the extrinsic principle of the change or production of anything by means of action: principium extrinsicum a quo fluit motus vel productio rei mediante actione.

From Ontology or the Theory of Being by Coffey, Peter

So long as the knowledge is merely that which is involved in the principium individuationis and exclusively follows the principle of sufficient reason, the strength of the motives is irresistible.

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