单词 | sub specie temporis |
释义 | sub specie temporisadv. Chiefly Philosophy and Theology. Viewed in relation to (a particular) time; from a temporal perspective. Opposed to sub specie aeternitatis adv. ΘΚΠ the world > time > duration > duration [phrase] > viewed in relation to time rather than eternity sub specie temporis1875 1875 Jrnl. Speculative Philos. 9 375 He to whom this view appears..as more profound than the view sub specie temporis of the causality relation, thereby only shows his blindness to the one-sidedness of stand-point he occupies. 1928 L. Hodgson in A. E. J. Rawlinson Ess. Trinity & Incarnation viii. 378 Perhaps the best one can do is to speak of God as ἀπαθὴς sub specie aeternitatis but παθητικὸς sub specie temporis. 1960 Encounter 15 77 Sub specie temporis his Combination Rooms say more to us than Beckett's wet and windy plains. 2004 Bull. School Oriental & Afr. Stud. 67 78 Like any other sophisticated work, the Shipin deserves to be read sub specie temporis and within its own semantic system. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adv.1875 |
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