单词 | faciendum |
释义 | faciendumn. Philosophy. A thing that should be done. Cf. credenda n. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > undertaking > [noun] > an undertaking > thing(s) to be done faciendum1646 agenda1923 1646 A. Burgess Vindiciæ Legis xxvi. 243 In the third place, there are facienda, things to be done. 1678 J. Allington Reform'd Samaritan 15 What is the antient Land-mark of England, but our Laws and Religion? (which contains as well facienda as credenda). 1754 A. Stevenson Hist. Church & State Scotl. II. ii. 287 What we swear to do, may, with the safety of our oath, be oft omitted, for facienda are either in things necessary or indifferent. a1832 J. Bentham Logic in Wks. (1841) VIII. xv. 241/1 Different assemblages of these noscenda and facienda; of these subjects or objects of disciplines, have received names. a1866 J. Grote Exam. Utilit. Philos. (1870) iv. 67 This is the idea of the summum jus, the faciendum, the notion of duty. 1958 W. Stark Sociol. of Knowl. iii. 139 ‘Imaginative’ thought..is neither concerned with data, like ‘existential’ thought, nor yet with facienda, like normative ideas. 1997 A. E. McGrath Genesis of Doctr. vi. 173 It is fair to suggest that ‘tradition’ primarily designates facienda rather than credenda—practices rather than beliefs. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1646 |
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