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‖ philosophia prima|fɪləʊˈsɒfɪa ˈpriːmə|
[L., = first philosophy.]
The study of the most general and universal truths of all science, (so called by Aristotle, followed by Francis Bacon and others); also, more specifically, the study of the divine and eternal.
1605Bacon Adv. Learning ii. fol. 20v Therefore it is good, before wee enter into the former distribution, to erect & constitute one vniuersal Science by the name of Philosophia Prima, Primitive or Svmmarie Philosophie, as the Maine and common way, before we come where the waies part. [1641Descartes (title) Meditationes de prima philosophia, in qua Dei existentia, & animæ immortalitas demonstratur.] 1651Hobbes Leviathan iv. xlvi. 371 There is a certain Philosophia prima, on which all other Philosophy ought to depend; and consisteth principally, in right limiting of the significations of such Appellations, or Names, as are of all others the most Universall. 1865J. S. Mill Exam. Hamilton's Philos. xxiv. 464 What is inappropriately termed the Philosophia Prima..would be more properly called ultima, since it consists of the widest generalizations respecting the laws of Existence and Activity. 1890G. T. Ladd Introd. Philos. (1891) 14 Yet a prima philosophia is in some sort recognized, which is nothing more than a mixture of definitions of the more fundamental conceptions. 1945Mind LIV. 209 An author who calls himself a positivist had better show cause that he is in earnest when he protests his concern for philosophia prima. |