Meaning of principial | Babel Free

Definitions

Elementary; fundamental.

Equivalents

Examples

“On account of heat being kindled by the attrition of bodies, reject⟳ a principial nature. By principial nature I mean⟳ that which exists in the nature of things positively, and not as the effect of any antecedent nature.”

“My only aim will be to trace the dislocating work⟳ of the two conditions that ensue, namely, the principial condition over which the foundation presides and the ground as the originary condition.”

“The latter, a principial christocentrism, may include⟳ the monergistic view⟳ of salvation, but it will also assume⟳ that Christ is the principium cognoscendi theologiae or, in Kickel's phrase the Erkenntnissgrund of theology.”

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