单词 | perseity |
释义 | perseityn. Philosophy. The quality of being predicated essentially of a subject; an instance of this. Also: the quality or fact of existing independently. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > existence > [noun] > independent or self-existence perseity1588 self-existency1602 absoluteness1605 self-lifea1631 separateness1635 self-existence1643 a-seity1691 self-containment1841 self-being1853 proseity1899 in-itselfness1906 1588 A. Fraunce Lawiers Logike sig. ¶3v And yet, notwithstanding all their Perseities,..hee that would not gather gould out of Aquinas dregges,..I shall thinke him as wise. 1694 R. Burthogge Ess. Reason ix. 269 Subsistence is a mode of Existence, to which it adds Perseity. 1876 Contemp. Rev. 28 1006 One novelty..in philosophy—the exclusion of the per-se-ity and must-be-ity, which cut such a figure in what goes for metaphysics. 1912 Jrnl. Philos., Psychol. & Sci. Methods 9 529 But radical empiricism can yield no metaphysical principle like the God of scholasticism, of such attributes as unity, aseity, perseity, infinity, necessity, immutability, etc. 1962 L. von Mises Ultimate Found. Econ. Sci. v. 79 In denying perseity, i.e., independent existence of their own, to the collectives, one does not in the least deny the reality of the effects brought about by the cooperation of individuals. 2002 Theol. Stud. 28 854 Neither the rational nature by itself, nor the perseity (being a per se existent) of subsistence, can constitute the ultimate specific difference for personhood. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1588 |
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