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elanguescence, n. Philos.|ˌiːlæŋˈgwɛsəns|
[tr. G. Elanguescenz (I. Kant 1787, in Critik der reinen Vernunft (ed. 2) 414) f. L. ēlanguescĕre to grow faint: see languish v., -ence.]
In Kantian philosophy, the gradual loss by the soul of its powers.
1855J. M. D. Meiklejohn tr. Kant's Critique Pure Reason 245 By gradual loss (remissio) of its powers (consequently by elanguescence, if I may employ this expression). 1933C. D. Broad Exam. McTaggart's Philos. I. ii. vii. 144 It will be remembered that Kant, in criticising the Scholastic argument from the simplicity of the soul to its immortality, said that it might cease to exist by ‘elanguescence’, as a sound dies away without ‘coming to bits’. 1985Philos. & Phenomenol. Res. XLVI. 199 Ostensibly arcane metaphysics, Kant's ‘elanguescence’—or gradual loss of powers—is significant enough for contemporary discussions of personal identity. Ibid. 217 While the impossibility of the soul's elanguescence to negation = 0 cannot be proven, neither is it possible to prove that such diminution to negation = 0 does in fact occur. |