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QUA-Theories

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I shall call a theory of the functor ‘qua’ a ‘qua-theory’. This functor is used in expressions like ‘A qua B is C’. Some synonymous expressions are ‘as’, ‘insofar as’, ‘in virtue of’, ‘with respect to’.

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Poli, R. (1999). QUA-Theories. In: Albertazzi, L. (eds) Shapes of Forms. Synthese Library, vol 275. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-2990-1_10

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