sublate
Americanverb (used with object)
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Etymology
Origin of sublate
First recorded in 1850–55; from Latin sublat(us), past participle of tollere “to lift, raise up, remove”
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Nor is there any valid line of reasoning to sublate that perception.
From The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Ramanuja — Sacred Books of the East, Volume 48 by Thibaut, George
Hence also the sloka last referred to does not sublate the reality of the world.
From The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Ramanuja — Sacred Books of the East, Volume 48 by Thibaut, George
The thing we determine to be unreal because it is sublated; the idea is non-sublated, and therefore real.
From The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Ramanuja — Sacred Books of the East, Volume 48 by Thibaut, George
The conscious states experienced in dreams are not unreal; it is only their objects that are false; these objects only, not the conscious states, are sublated by the waking consciousness.
From The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Ramanuja — Sacred Books of the East, Volume 48 by Thibaut, George
Our Lord's Passion is His sublimest action—an action so potent that all His other actions are sublated in it, and we know everything when we know that He died for our sins.
From The Atonement and the Modern Mind by Denney, James
Being and not-being are so mediated and sublated in becoming that they are no longer contradictory.
From History of Modern Philosophy From Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time by Falckenberg, Richard
This, we rejoin, would imply that ajnâna acting like a defect of the eye by its very essential being hides Brahman, and then ajnâna could not be sublated by knowledge.
From The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Ramanuja — Sacred Books of the East, Volume 48 by Thibaut, George
Brahman, although no sublating cognition presents itself.—This conclusion admits of various expressions in logical form.
From The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Ramanuja — Sacred Books of the East, Volume 48 by Thibaut, George
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