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Definition of Prescinded
1. prescind [v] - See also: prescind
Lexicographical Neighbors of Prescinded
Literary usage of Prescinded
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Student's Handbook of Philosophy: Psychology by Benjamin Franklin Cocker (1882)
"... (2) A single quality, act, or relation, prescinded, generalized, mid named,
which may be predicated of a possible object of intuition ..."
2. Institutes of Metaphysic: The Theory of Knowing and Being by James Frederick Ferrier (1856)
"Therefore absolute existence is not the universal by itself. And thus particular
things prescinded from the universal have no absolute existence, ..."
3. The First Principles of Knowledge by John Rickaby (1888)
"precisely to the addition of " extension" by the observation that a concept so
prescinded may be applied to each of many individuals presenting the notes ..."
4. Philosophical Works of the Late James Frederick Ferrier by James Frederick Ferrier (1875)
"This happens, that the particular is prescinded from the universal; you are called
upon to conceive particulars under the presidency of no universal; ..."
5. Lectures on Greek Philosophy and Other Philosophical Remains of James by James Frederick Ferrier (1866)
"This happens, that the particular is prescinded from the universal; you are called
upon to conceive particulars under the presidency of no universal; ..."
6. Orations from Homer to William McKinley by Mayo Williamson Hazeltine (1902)
"... when for such elevated considerations the family compact is prescinded that
has already on the other part been broken and completely destroyed, ..."
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