Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Without or independent of presuppositions.
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As we have already seen, in An Essay on Metaphysics, he claims that the idea of presuppositionless knowledge is an oxymoron because there can be no science of pure being; a science of pure being is a science without a subject matter and thus not a science at all.
Robin George Collingwood D'Oro, Giuseppina 2006
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This movement of reason, as one of self-discovery and self-cultivation, ends there, where it began, in presuppositionless unity, where it might begin anew.
Meister Eckhart Mojsisch, Burkhard 2006
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˜realism™ which constitutes the target of Collingwood's critique is not the ontological thesis that there exist mind independent objects, but the epistemological thesis that there is such a thing as presuppositionless knowledge of reality.
Robin George Collingwood D'Oro, Giuseppina 2006
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Thinking is, then, for itself a presuppositionless origin, that is, it is its own principle: principium (Echardus, In Ioh. n.
Meister Eckhart Mojsisch, Burkhard 2006
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The goal of the rational form of life ” of living in and with the spiritual perfections at the level of that transcendental being or being (esse, ens) convertible with the termini transcendentes (the one, the true, and the good) ” is living in and from the absolute one (in and from the divine nature as presuppositionless unity).
Meister Eckhart Mojsisch, Burkhard 2006
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