Perfectively

adv

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Definitions

Adverb
  1. 1
    In a perfective manner or context not-comparable

    "From these two claims I make the following evident argument: God would not have seen anything unless he had possessed those things, but to possess them only perfectively and not in a representational mode would not have sufficed to have cognized them."

Example

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"From these two claims I make the following evident argument: God would not have seen anything unless he had possessed those things, but to possess them only perfectively and not in a representational mode would not have sufficed to have cognized them."

Etymology

From perfective + -ly.

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