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individuatio

individuatio [ML] , (phil.) process of rendering or becoming individual, state of being individual, individuation, individuality; b (phr. principium ~onis, causa ~onis, or sim.). ipsius ~onis actualitas a forma vere causatur Ps.-Gros. Summa 318; videtur quod [spiritualis creatura] materiam habeat, quia sine illa non est ~o, et in talibus spiritibus est ~o Kilwardby OS 266; sic quod [anima] corporibus corruptis suam retineat ~onem Knapwell Not. 198; per ~onem intelligo istam indivisibilitatem sive repugnantiam ad divisibilitatem Duns Sent. II iii 2. 4; sic caperent actus ~onem suam a tempore sicud motus, et non essent res absolute Wycl. Act. 32; Deus autem, extra genus, et per consequens carens ~one, est principium individuandi omne individuum Id. Log. II 190.  b cum querunt quid erit causa ~onis si nec species nec aliquid additum speciei causat eam Bacon II 100; scribitur septimo Methaphysice quod materia est principium ~onis Ib. VIII 83; questionem de causa ~onis illorum specialissimorum Siccav. PN 83; quantitas dimensiva est radicale principium ~onis substancie materialis, ut Petri vel Johannis T. Sutton Quodl. 140 (cf. id. Duns 75: prima radix ~onis est quantitas).

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