One might regret that Hugon did not discuss the date of the manuscript itself, which--provided that it would have been possible to come up with a
terminus ad quem, even an approximate one--could help to give an idea about the period in which the work still generated interest among Tibetan scholars.
The creative imagination is the Chaos terminus a quo and the World(s) is the
terminus ad quem, the polar character of which sets the permeable bounds to meaning and existence.
Only in the "Afterword," on "Scott's Parental Interest," does Brewer reveal his justification for "my
terminus ad quem of 1825 (the year in which Sir Walter Scott's Tales of the Crusaders first appeared)" (188).
However, he suggests 1785, the publication year of Schutz's review, as terminus a quo, and the end of Mutach's student years in 1789, as
terminus ad quem.
This reigning scientific orthodoxy has not only removed the hand of God from human and natural affairs, it has also led humanity to a state of despair--for, if earthquakes can be explained away in terms of the movement of tectonic plates, and all that happens on earth in terms of randomly occurring processes, then life on this ravaged planet itself becomes a
terminus ad quem, without any hope of a future life.
The "warre of all against all" is not only a terminus a quo of state power (its point of departure) but also, under specific conditions, a
terminus ad quem (its fateful undoing).
In "Catholic Communities and Their Art," Annabel Patterson writes about "the role of the visual arts in consoling, consolidating, and even creating English Catholic communities" (112), especially in the first half of the seventeenth century--thus just past the
terminus ad quem of the "Pre-Modern" of this collection's title.
Inoltre e anche strano che per il
terminus ad quem sia stato scelto l'Ottocento, anche perche l'italiano letterario degli ultimi cent'anni non solo ha subito modifiche ma continua a essere il termine di paragone per tutte le altre varieta linguistiche.
His
terminus ad quem for the Mass Proper is based on his dating of the latest feasts with uniquely assigned chants, the Marian festivals and the Dedication.
Eco's most important revisions of A Theory of Semiotics (which are for the most part the result of his new considerations on the Peircean Dynamic Object, from a
terminus ad quem to a terminus a quo), like his return to some old debates with T.
The
terminus ad quem allows one to determine the nature of the effect of the Council of Trent on the book trade, a subject to which Vogel devotes only a few pages (150-55).