equivalence

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From French équivalence, from Medieval Latin aequivalentia.

To speak of an equivalence between the two is simply to curtail, and make almost unintelligible, the Spinozistic or Leibnizian metaphysic. — Creative Evolution, Bergson, Henri
Thus it is that Leibniz not only denies the equivalence of soul and consciousness, but asserts that the fundamental error of the psychology of the Cartesians (and here, at least, Locke is a Cartesian) is in identifying them. — Leibniz's New Essays Concerning the Human Understanding: A Critical Exposition, John Dewey
We shall thus be brought back to the idea of an equivalence between duration and its spatial symbol; and by pressing the definition of freedom which we have laid down, we shall once more get determinism out of it. — Time and Free Will: An Essay on the Immediate Data of Consciousness, Henri Bergson

equality, equation, par

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