Filiation Definition

Filiation Sentence Examples

• In endeavouring to trace the filiation and affinities of the vine, the characters afforded by the seed are specially valuable, because they have not been wittingly interfered with by human agency.

• The merit of Hegel is to have indicated and to a large extent displayed the filiation and mutual limitation of our forms of thought; to have arranged them in the order of their comparative capacity to give a satisfactory expression to truth in the totality of its relations; and to have broken down the partition which in Kant separated the formal logic from the transcendental analytic, as well as the general disruption between logic and metaphysic. It must at the same time be admitted that much of the work of weaving the terms of thought, the categories, into a system has a hypothetical and tentative character, and that Hegel has rather pointed out the path which logic must follow, viz.

• In trying to subject history to the order of logic they sometimes misconceive the filiation of ideas.

• Lastly, the third filiation must be raised to the Not-Being God.

• Whereupon the second filiation takes to itself wings, which are the Holy Ghost, and with this aid almost reaches the Not-Being God.