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Limiting Notion

Limiting Notion The notion of the extreme applicability of an universal principle considered as a limit. Employed by Kant (1724-1804) in his Kritik der Reinen Vernunft, A 255, to indicate the theory that experience cannot attain to the noumenon. — J.K.F. Fuente: The Dictionary of Philosophy

Limiter

Limiter (limnitour), the name given to an itinerant and begging friar employed by a convent to collect its dues and promote its temporal interests within certain limits, though under the direction of the brotherhood who employed him. Occasionals the limiter is a person of considerable importance. See Russell’s Notes; Works of the English and Scottish … Continue reading “Limiter”

Limitative

Limitative Tending to restrict; pertaining to the limit-value. In logic, an affirmative infinitated judgment, often employed as a third quality added to affirmative and negative. More specifically used by Kant to denote judgments of the type, “Every A is a not-B”, and since Kant, applied to the judgments known to the older logicians as indefinite. … Continue reading “Limitative”

Limit

Limit limit (, gebhul, bound): Occurs once in Eze 43:12 (limit of holy mountain). Limited (Psa 78:41) and limiteth (, horzo, Heb 4:7) are changed in the Revised Version (British and American) to provoked (the margin retains limited) and defineth respectively. Fuente: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia Limit We give here only some of the most … Continue reading “Limit”

Limina Martyrum

Limina Martyrum (the houses of the martyrs), a phrase sometimes used in ancient writers to designate churches. Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

Limerick, Ireland, diocese of

Limerick, Ireland, diocese of Comprises the greater part of Limerick and a small portion of Clare; suffragan of Cashel. Early missionaries: Saint Patrick, Saint Senan, and Saint Munchin, who established the celebrated monastery and school of Mungret. The first known bishop of Limerick was Gillebert (c.1100), who presided at the Synod of Rathbreasail. His successors … Continue reading “Limerick, Ireland, diocese of”

Limerick

Limerick (LIMERICENSIS) Diocese in Ireland; includes the greater part of the County of Limerick and a small portion of Clare, and has an area, approximately, of about 500,000 acres. It corresponds with the ancient territory of Hy Fidhgheinte. St. Patrick visited the district, and was followed in the work of converting the natives by St. … Continue reading “Limerick”

Lime

Lime (, sid, perh. from its boiling or effervescing when slaked; Isa 33:12; Amo 2:1; rendered “plaster” in Deu 2:2; Deu 2:4; the same word is used for lime in Arab. and Syr.), a well-known mineral substance, which is a very prevalent ingredient in rocks, and, combined with carbonic acid, forms marble, chalk, and limestone, … Continue reading “Lime”