fictitiously
advEtymology From fictitious + -ly.
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In a fictitious manner.
- Since the term 'imagination,' absolutely in a grammatical sense, means a certain, definite idea, that is, an affection of the mind, representative or implying a representation, in the same way I acknowledge that nothing physical, or even in any sense moral, could be conceived by the mind, or could be understood precisely, if not by means of a figurable example: and not only, as they say in the schools, concretely, but especially individually: for at the lowest degree, this can be done vaguely and even fictitiously by an arbitrary representation, which is nevertheless figuarable or imaginable.2016, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Freiherr von Leibniz, Georg Ernst Stahl, The Leibniz-Stahl Controversy, page 311: