Derivative passive force shows up in the different degrees of resistance to change of different kinds of matter (of 'secondary matter' in scholastic terms), and apparently is measurable.
Valla also rejects other scholastic terms such as entitas ("entity"), hecceitas ("this-ness") and quidditas ("quidity") for grammatical reasons: these terms do not conform to the rules of word formation in Latin.
Descartes, Leibniz, and Berkeley all believed that, to put it in somewhat scholastic terms, the predicate 'x is in true motion' is a complete predicate in the sense that it holds or fails to hold for any given body.
In terms of Leibniz's classical allegiances, it is interesting to see that in the realm of metaphysics, he often couched his philosophy in Aristotelian (and Scholastic) terms but that in the realm of epistemology, he was a fairly open Platonist – at least in terms of the existence of innate ideas.
The Abhidhamma consists almost entirely of scholastic lists of terms and explanations of them describing the body and mind and the nature of the external world.
Scholastic usage of frequency terms followed ancient precedent, most notably Aristotle's statements of what is true or false "in most cases" (hōs epi to polu).
Our results also showed that black children have better self-esteem in terms of scholastic competence and physical appearance than the Hispanic children.
Customary book contract terms would give Scholastic an option on the next book, meaning essentially the right to make an offer privately before Ms. Rowling and Mr. Little could negotiate with other houses.
The subjects, 1,528 California children with IQs exceeding 140, were examined medically, anthropologically, and psychologically and were described otherwise in terms of interests, scholastic achievement, books read, and games known.
Recent scholarship has found less clear-cut boundaries between humanism and scholasticism than were formerly assumed, and this is also true for humanist and scholastic uses of probability-related terms.
