单词 | immediacy |
释义 | immediacyn. 1. a. The quality or condition of being immediate; freedom from intermediate or intervening agency; direct relation or connection; directness. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > [noun] > directness or immediacy immediacya1616 immediateness1633 the world > action or operation > manner of action > [noun] > specific manner of action or operation > direct action or operation immediation1569 immediacya1616 short-circuiting1896 a1616 W. Shakespeare King Lear (1623) v. iii. 58 He..Bore the Commission of my place and person, The which immediacie may well stand vp, And call it selfe your Brother. 1658 W. Gurnall Christian in Armour: 2nd Pt. 151 There is the immediacy of his providence. 1660 S. Fisher Rusticus ad Academicos iii. 39 The immediacy..of those first Scriptures from God to us. 1875 H. James Roderick Hudson i. 10 Questions..bearing with varying degrees of immediacy on the subject. 1885 R. L. Stevenson in Contemp. Rev. Apr. 549 A strange freshness and immediacy of address to the public mind. b. Logic and Philosophy. (See immediate adj. 2b.) ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > knowledge, what is known > [noun] > intuitive immediacya1834 immediate knowledge1874 the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > epistemology > [noun] > cognition > immediate cognition intuition1660 belief1831 immediacya1834 immediate knowledge1874 the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > logic > logical syllogism > logical argument > [noun] > inference syllogism1588 subalternation1650 immediacya1834 immediate inference1843 mediate inference1849 the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > logic > logical syllogism > [noun] > conclusion > types of immediacy1864 immediate inference1866 a1834 S. T. Coleridge Lit. Remains (1838) III. 315 Spiritual verities, or truths of reason respective ad realia,..are differenced from the conceptions of the understanding by the immediacy [printed immediatcy] of the knowledge. a1856 W. Hamilton Lect. Metaphysics (1859) II. xxiii. 78 If Reid did not maintain this immediacy of perception..he would at once be forced to admit one or other of the unitarian conclusions of materialism or idealism. 1864 F. C. Bowen Treat. Logic viii. 265 The reduction of a Hypothetical Judgment to a Categorical shows very clearly the Immediacy of the reasoning in what is called a Hypothetical Syllogism. 1874 W. Wallace tr. G. W. F. Hegel Logic §12. 16 The a priori aspect or immediacy of thought, where there is a mediation, not made by anything external but by a reflection into itself, is another name for universality. 2. The condition of being the immediate lord or vassal: see immediate adj. 1b. ΘΚΠ society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > tenure of property > [noun] > direct tenure immediacy1762 1762 P. Murdoch tr. A. F. Büsching New Syst. Geogr. IV. 446 Varel lost its immediacy, or independency, and stands at present under the superiority of Oldenburg. 1762 P. Murdoch tr. A. F. Büsching New Syst. Geogr. V. 299 The Emperors Charles IV. and Wenceslaus engaged to maintain it in its immediacy on the Empire. 1818 H. Hallam View Europe Middle Ages I. 21 (note) The immediacy of vassals in times so ancient is open to much controversy. 3. The condition of being immediate in time (see immediate adj. 4). ΘΚΠ the world > time > relative time > immediacy > [noun] hastinessc1425 maturity1531 swiftness1535 suddennessa1599 abruptness1604 instancy1851 immediacy1856 immediateness1863 1856 W. A. Butler Lect. Hist. Anc. Philos. I. 453 The sage will..ensure his certainty in the immediacy of enjoyment, carefully rejecting all intensive suggestions of past or future. 1898 Christian World 17 Mar. 15/4 On a subordinate point like the immediacy of the Second Coming. 4. plural. Immediate needs. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > necessity > condition of being necessary > [noun] > that which is necessary > necessaries > immediate immediacies1923 1923 H. G. Wells Men like Gods iii. iv. 288 The old things and the foul things, customs, delusions, habits,..base immediacies, triumph over us! This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.a1616 |
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