equipollence

• equipollency

Compare French équipollence.

• IPA^(key): /ˌɛkwɪˈpɒləns/, /ˌiːkwɪˈpɒləns/

equipollence (countable and uncountable, plural equipollences)

1. The condition of being equipollent; equality of power, force, signification, or application.
   • 1906, Mary Baker Eddy, “Chapter VI — Science, Theology, Medicine”, in Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures‎, Harper and Row, page 110:

     Thus it was that I beheld, as never before, the awful unreality called evil. The equipollence of God brought to light another glorious proposition, — man’s perfectibility and the establishment of the kingdom of heaven on earth.

2. (logic) Sameness of signification of two or more propositions which differ in language.

• equipollent