bepower
verbEtymology From be- + power.
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To give power to; imbue with power.
- This demand, the reddendum, pervasively bepowers all human cognition.1996, Martin Heidegger, The Principle of Reason:
- However, Heidegger (28) insists that what really "bepowers" this principle emerges in its precise formulation as the principium reddendae rationis; that is, something is only an object for a rational subject if we can offer ourselves reasons for it.2000, Foundation for Education, Science, and Technology (South Africa). Bureau for Scientific Publications, Philosophical Society of Southern Africa, South African journal of philosophy
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- "Only through looking back on what Leibniz thought can we characterise the present age—an age one calls the atomic age—as an age pervasively bepowered by the power of the principium rationis sufficientis."2008, Cristian Calude, Gregory J. Chaitin, Randomness and complexity: from Leibniz to Chaitin: