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But, before we do so we must yield concern to the condition of such a relation and determine whether all names are the result of things (nomina sunt consequentia rerum) (12) or rather, as Isidore of Seville maintained, that some names are imposed not according to nature but arbitrarily and can be called conventional ("Non omnia nomina a veteribus secundum naturam imposita sunt, sed quaedam et secundum placitu").
Firstly, the principle, very much alive in the thirteenth century, of nomina sunt consequentia rerum, by which the name of something could embody and reproduce its essential nature, reminds us of the interdependence of words.
As in law, so in morality: ab abusu ad usum non valet consequentia.
 
 
 
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