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Example sentences for "tertium quid"

  • Tertium Quid alone makes any pretence at impartiality, and his is the result of indifference, not of justice.

  • Give a dog a bad name and hang him," says the proverb, and it was exemplified in the case of the Russians, who soon came to be regarded as a tertium quid between enemies of public order and suspicious neutrals.

  • Nothing remained then but to have recourse to a tertium quid which profoundly dissatisfied both parties and imperiled the peace of the world in days to come.

  • See "A Chapter in the Ethics of Pain," by the late Edmund Gurney, in a volume of essays entitled Tertium Quid.

  • With them there is no tertium quid between outward environment and miracle.

  • He had also the tenderest heart and a mind of rare metaphysical power, as his volumes of essays, 'Tertium Quid,' will prove to any reader.

  • We can no longer speak of heat and light being reconciled in any tertium quid like wave-motion.

  • In the general construction of his opera Purcell followed the French model, but his treatment of recitative is bolder and more various than that of Lulli, while as a melodist he is incomparably superior.

  • The murmuring of streams, the singing of birds, and the placid beauty of the landscape are depicted with a touch which, if light, is infallibly sure.

  • This tertium quid must be, on the one side, intellectual and, on the other side, sensuous.

  • The possibility of this subsumption presupposes a tertium quid, which is homogeneous both with the object of empirical perception and with the conception, and so makes the subsumption mediately possible.

  • This tertium quid gives him something which can plausibly be regarded as at once a perception and something perceived.

  • In virtue of his theory of perception[10] he interposes a tertium quid between the reality perceived and the percipient, in the shape of an 'appearance'.

  • Can a reality, that is real only if, to the forms of experience, it is always a tertium quid, can such a reality ever be present to any other than a poet's consciousness?

  • The credit here has usually been given to a tertium quid, to God, who is so made more a mediator than a creator.

  • Tertium Quid is sometimes flippant in tone, and his neutral attitude seems chiefly the result of indifference or of caution.

  • There exist, in fact, several systems which propound that the outer world is known to us directly without the intermediary of a tertium quid, that is, of sensation.

  • We have even established that the existence of this intermediary is directly proved by observation, and from this I have concluded that we do not directly perceive the object itself but a tertium quid, which is our sensations.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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