Working on these lines, and attaching special importance to common descent, naturalists applied the term with more and more precision, until Linnaeus, in his Philosophia botanica, gave the aphorism, species tot sunt diversae, quot diversae formae ab initio sunt creatae - just so many species are
(For, although the term ontology has been as good as disused, it still remains true that the aim of philosophy must be to furnish us with an ontology or a coherent and adequate theory of the nature of reality.) But if, on the other hand, knowledge and reality be ab initio opposed to one another -
ab initio הגייה עם משמעויות, מילים נרדפות, הפכים, תרגומים, משפטים ועוד