consensus gentium
Americannoun
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The consensus gentium and especially hominum can probably amount only to an absurdity.
From Human, All Too Human A Book for Free Spirits by Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm
Extolling the apprehension of the Deity through man's uniform reason, Shaftesbury urbanely lampooned enthusiasm, that private revelation which threatened to prevail against the consensus gentium.
From Benjamin Franklin Representative selections, with introduction, bibliograpy, and notes by Jorgenson, Chester E.
His argument, as I understand it, is the consensus gentium theory applied to the Virgin Mary.
From Old Calabria by Douglas, Norman
Some make the criterion external to the moment of perception, putting it either in revelation, the consensus gentium, the instincts of the heart, or the systematized experience of the race.
From The Will to Believe : and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by James, William
Stated without rhyme or metre and adapted to our case: the consensus sapientium is to the effect that the consensus gentium amounts to an absurdity.
From Human, All Too Human A Book for Free Spirits by Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm
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