Sentence examples for relation of reason from inspiring English sources

For example, by the end of thirteenth century, most philosophers use it to explain the doctrine of creation, saying that creatures are related to God by a real relation, whereas God is related to them by a mere relation of reason (cf. Henninger 1989).

Instead of probing such contexts, Wilken provides a condensed summary of patristic thought on big questions: the image and likeness of God, the relation of reason to faith, the apparent duality of Christ ("not my will but thine").

It is at this point that the medieval notion of a relation of reason (relatio rationis) becomes relevant.

Book IV, the culmination of the previous reflections, explains the nature and limits of knowledge, probability, and the relation of reason and faith.

The discussion of the relation of reason to revelation goes back at least to Albertus Magnus and Thomas Aquinas that is to the scholastic authorities.

In Book IV Chapters XVII, XVIII and XIX Locke deals with the nature of reason, the relation of reason to faith and the nature of enthusiasm.

For a discussion of Ockham's distinction between real relations and relations of reason, see Henninger 1989, 136-40.

Although relations of reason force a shift away from the Aristotelian characterization of relations, it is important to recall that they were originally invoked to preserve the deep-seated Aristotelian conviction that no substance is a relation.

This effort, as we shall see, helps to explain the pervasiveness in late medieval philosophy of the distinction between so-called real relations (relationes reales) and mere relations of reason (relationes rationis).

The strategy that supports this choice is evident: as in the case of relations of reason, Alyngton is trying to substitute references to external reality for references to mental activity.

On this basis, Alyngton can define relations of reason while eliminating from their description any reference to our mind and using objective criteria only, based on the framework of reality itself.