Adequate

Adequate ( Latin adaequare , equalize) means in the general sense “appropriate”, “congruent”, “suitable”, “consistent”. The opposite of the term is “inadequate” (not covering, inappropriate).

• Especially in truth theory , adequately is a meaningful term. So took Thomas Aquinas him from the Jewish Neoplatonists Isaac Israeli ben Solomon , also called Israeli the Elder, whose definition of truth adaequatio intellectus et rei was (correspondence between intellect and thing).
• In Spinozist philosophy , “adequate” means sufficient , monocausal as the sole explanation .

“By adequate cause I understand a cause whose effect can be explained from this (one) cause alone. Inadequate cause or partial cause, on the other hand, I call a cause whose effect cannot be explained by this cause alone. "( Spinoza Ethica , Part 3, Definitions)

Spinoza defines an adequate idea as an idea that can be conceived without any relation to an object.

• In Edmund Husserl's work , the term adequately appears in the distinction between adequate and apodictic evidence .
• In modern logic , a formal system is called adequate if it is both complete and correct .
• In the philosophy of science , adequacy is a requirement for the explication of concepts.

See also

• Correspondence theory
• phenomenology
• Adequacy

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