equipollence

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

EQUIPOL'LENCE EQUIPOL'LENCY, noun [Latin oequus and pollentia, power, polleo, to be able.] 1. Equality of power or force. 2. In logic, an equivalence between two or more propositions; that is, when two propositions signify the same thing, though differently expressed.
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