Taking the theory of evolution as a basis, Comte affirmed that the fundamental law of history was that of historic filiation, that is, the Law of the Three States.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI] Reference

(AA. 3, 4), or He must needs be her Son by some other temporal filiation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition] Reference

In Jean Gayon and Jean-Jacques Wunenburger (eds.), Le paradigme de la filiation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gene] Reference

This legacy is precisely what de Man calls parricide: a rupture that reaffirms a filiation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Introduction] Reference

But human nature can nowise be the subject of filiation, because this relation regards directly the person.    From Wordnik.com.  [Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition] Reference

Christians can participate in the divine life only by way of filiation, becoming God's children by adoption.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-01-20] Reference

Back before they had last names (only about 100 years ago), they were also identified by filiation but also clan.    From Wordnik.com.  [Differences between the Shia and Sunni in Iraq] Reference

Catherine gave birth to a boy on 22 April, and on 25 April, the court issued an order of filiation and maintenance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gutenber-e Help Page] Reference

Joyce twigged to the filiation of a Dubliner named Byron and a poet named Byron, and Captain Buller is his cunning way of linking them.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Scandal of 'Ulysses'] Reference

For if we consider the adequate causes of filiation, we must needs say that there are two filiations in respect of the twofold nativity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition] Reference

Roman empire; the glory of refusing the throne of the Cæsars of the west, amazed the barbarians of Europe as far as the filiation of the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847] Reference

I don't really see the filiation with Nan Goldin, for me it looks very similar to Patrick Tsai and Madi Ju's diary, or is it the opposite ?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Be There (or be square)] Reference

'The Son of God' and 'the Messiah' are convertible terms, which the Jews deny not; and yet have very wrong conceptions about 'filiation,' or being made a son.    From Wordnik.com.  [From the Talmud and Hebraica] Reference

“Once his name is on the birth certificate and he has treated the child as his own, filiation is considered irrevocably established,” Anne-France Goldwater said.    From Wordnik.com.  [2009 March « Unambiguously Ambidextrous] Reference

Thus, the accusation and recognition of a parricide becomes inseparable from the recovery of filiation, the production of guilt, and the insistence of an inheritance.    From Wordnik.com.  ['At the Far End of this Ongoing Enterprise...'] Reference

His history is, he argued, "a biography of things, a filiation of objects, not as pictures of an exhibition, but as records of the process of their coming into existence.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Trafficking Materials and Gendered Experimental Practices: Radium Research in Early 20th Century Vienna] Reference

Wilt thou give me an inheritance, a filiation, any thing for my heart?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions Together with Death's Duel] Reference

Lamarck, Lyell, and Darwin, and of the historical filiation of these philosophers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Darwiniana : Essays — Volume 02] Reference

It appeared to me that, as it were, a spiritual filiation took place between him and me.    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 13 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Lovers] Reference

Our aim is only to indicate the main lines of filiation that have produced the prevailing novel of the day.    From Wordnik.com.  [Studies in Literature and History] Reference

The second fallacy which the historical citation is a little apt to suggest is that the filiation of ideas is.    From Wordnik.com.  [Evolution in Modern Thought] Reference

One cannot love a group of consequences, even supposing that the filiation could be distinctly presented to the mind.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lectures and Essays] Reference

The filiation between the Syrian and Egyptian solitaries with the hermits of Buddhism may be made out with some plausibility.    From Wordnik.com.  [Castles and Cave Dwellings of Europe] Reference

But besides "derivation" or "filiation" another principle influencing organisation became recognisable, to which I gave the name of.    From Wordnik.com.  [The World's Greatest Books — Volume 15 — Science] Reference