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Discover LudwigThe word "emanation" is correct and usable in written English.
It is a noun that means a thing that comes out from a source, such as a smell, light, sound, or a feeling. For example, you could say, "The smell of baked goods was a pleasant emanation from the kitchen."
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emanation
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The act of flowing or proceeding from a fountain head or origin.
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Israeli accounts for the increasing corporeality and particularity and imperfection of each emanated hypostasis by adding the idea of shadow or shade to emanation.
In Ancient emanation theory, of course, the ultimate source from which all things emanated was God, and it seems clear that More follows suit here as well.
Similarly, the generation of emanated entities and hypostases in no way diminishes the source of each emanation.
In Plotinus' Enneads, the founding text of Neoplatonist philosophy, The One contains a will which is not separate from itself (Enneads, vi 8.21), and precedes the emanation of Nous (The Intellect/Intelligence) a secondary entity from which all lower beings emanate.
Who knows what accounts for these apparitions; are they an emanation of longing, love, hope, need?
The party has better politicians than she but none with her star quality (more an emanation of her pedigree than her personality).
The Germans call it Ausstrahlung, meaning emanation, or the force of personality.
First of all, Ibn Gabirol's pure matter is part of an overtly Neoplatonic world-view which, contra Aristotle, privileges spiritual/intelligible substances over sensible/corporeal reality, and which, contra Aristotle and Plato, emphasizes the emanation of the sensible realm from the spiritual realm.
Given the subtle interplay of the notions of emanation, creation, eternal sustenance, and ontological causal grounding in addition to Maimonides' own arguably ambiguous claims about creation it is difficult to know for sure what Maimonides is advocating, even when he is advocating "creation".
This is because Albert, as a Christian philosopher, favors a creationist view of being over the doctrine of pure emanation.
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God, the One, creates by self-emanation.
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