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• equipollency

Noun

equipollence ‎(countable and uncountable, plural equipollences)

1. The condition of being equipollent; equality of power, force, signification, or application.
   • 1906, Mary Baker Eddy, “Chapter VI — Science, Theology, Medicine”, in Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Harper and Row, page 110:

     Thus it was that I beheld, as never before, the awful unreality called evil. The equipollence of God brought to light another glorious proposition, — man’s perfectibility and the establishment of the kingdom of heaven on earth.

   • (Can we find and add a quotation of Boyle to this entry?)
2. (logic) Sameness of signification of two or more propositions which differ in language.

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