单词 | secondness |
释义 | secondnessn. The quality or fact of being second; spec. in the philosophy of C. S. Peirce (see Peirce n.), the category of fact or reaction that gives to the category of idea or quality (‘firstness’) its actual existence or form. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > two > fact of being second > [noun] secondnessc1890 c1890 C. S. Peirce Coll. Papers (1931) I. §358. 184 When the second suffers some change from the action of the first, and is dependent upon it, the secondness is more genuine. 1903 C. S. Peirce Coll. Papers (1931) §24. 7 I think we have here a mode of being of one thing which consists in how a second object is. I call that Secondness. 1934 Mind 43 490 Secondness comprises the actual facts of the world—the hic et nunc of things. 1966 F. C. Copleston Hist. Philos. VIII. xiv. 312 The meaning of an intellectual concept can be explicated in terms of the ideas of necessary relations between ideas of secondness and ideas of firstness, between..ideas of volition or action and ideas of perception. 1966 F. C. Copleston Hist. Philos. VIII. xiv. 322 From one point of view secondness can be called ‘fact’, while from another.. it is existence or actuality. 1979 Trans. Philol. Soc. 177 The affixation of me will in El[amitic] terms have turned the ‘2nd’ which II-um represents into ‘2nd-ness’ for the mere purpose of rendering meaningful the addition to it of the locatival affix ma, ‘in secondness’ amounting in effect to an adverbial ‘secondly’. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online June 2018). < n.c1890 |
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