Sentences with phrase «ad quem»

(b) The clutter of prehensions and enactments is unimaginable since a vast number of events intervene between the termini a quo and ad quem of perception, viz., events in the physical and physiological media between the perceptual object, sense organ, and percipient event in the brain.

Visions of the future and particularly visions of heaven, reflected this joyless, flat, and unimaginative terminus ad quem of Christian existence.

For while the formal and abstract may be grist for cognition, the factual and concrete may prove ultimately unassimilable — unless it be on a continuum with the former, the terminus ad quem where all questions regarding an entity's features or its relations are answered.

Change (implying a terminus ad quem) is intelligible only if we know the terminus a quo (the starting point).

We ought not to make absolute or glorify either the terminus a quo or the terminus ad quem of this movement.

In the paragraph above Polanyi seems to regard human consciousness as simply the product of the evolutionary process whereas its terminus ad quem for Fr Holloway is the primates.

But here, too, there is little that is actually new, although there is detail that confirms what shrewder observers of Vatican life pieced together after the events of early 2013: that Benedict XVI's poorly - planned 2012 visit to Mexico and Cuba convinced him that he could no longer travel; that he believed the Pope must be present at World Youth Day 2013 in Brazil, a conviction that became the terminus ad quem driving the timing of the abdication and what immediately preceded it; and that, contrary to speculations that have become more lurid over time, Benedict's concern about his increasingly frailty, which fuelled his concern that he would be increasingly unable to give the Church what she deserved from a pope, was the sole motive behind his decision to renounce the Oice of Peter — not Vatileaks, not concerns about financial and other corruptions inside the Leonine Wall, not blackmail.

As Hamann writes, «All philosophical resistance and the entire riddle of our existence, the impenetrable night of its terminus a quo and terminus ad quem, are dissolved by the charter of the Word become flesh.»

Not exact matches

Genitum, non factum, consubstantialem Patri: per quem omnia facta sunt... Pater noster, quis es in coelis; sanctificetur nomen tuum: ad veniat regnum tuum: fiat voluntas tua, sicut in coelo, et in terra.