单词 | prius |
释义 | priusn. Something which takes precedence; something prior or antecedent; the necessary prior condition of something. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > pre-eminence > [noun] > chief of its or his kind sunOE lordOE princec1225 primatec1384 princessc1390 giant1535 queen1554 first gentleman1584 Prester John1598 arch1605 gigant1610 principate1651 top-stone1659 first lady1677 Shakespeare1821 king1829 prius1882 aristocrat1883 Sun King1971 the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > logic > logical reasoning > [noun] > deductivism or a priori reasoning > a principle or axiom principlea1387 maximc1450 first principle1525 ground1528 principal1545 principium1550 protasis1572 theorem1588 postulate1590 axiom1593 groundsel1604 postulatuma1620 praecognitum1624 datum1646 self-evident1675 philosopheme1678 dictum of all and none1697 dictum of Aristotle1827 prius1882 ground rule1890 posit1900 1882 A. Seth Devel. Kant to Hegel 71 Schelling's Absolute became, under his hands, a formless prius from which formed existence emerged. 1891 H. Jones Browning as Teacher 220 That final perfection which..is first in order of potency,—the prius of all things. 1892 E. Caird Ess. Lit. & Philos. II. 404 Thought is not set up as an absolute prius, but as the prius of experience. 1922 J. Y. Simpson Man & Attainm. Immortality xiii. 294 God's gift to men of the possibility of winning freedom is the necessary prius to the possibility of becoming a son of God in the sense of the apostolic writers. 1976 Times Lit. Suppl. 9 Jan. 41/5 The most important of the appended essays is that in which Mary Hesse offers a searching critique of Jacques Monod. This is indeed the prius of the whole effort. 1985 P. Palmer tr. E. Bloch Ess. Philos. Music (1991) i. 109 The glorious white heat of the orchestra, the prius of victorious, rhythmically straining harmony, harmonically underscored rhythm becomes, in the end, a prius not only of the standpoint adopted but also of the cause at stake. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1882 |
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