firstness
- noun
- /ˈfɜrstnəs/
- Specialized
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primariedad
- Firstness is associated with spontaneity or feeling.
Examples
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This same conclusion is reached through careful analysis of what Peirce means by Firstness, Secondness, and Thirdness.
Academic text (2005) -
This "Firstness" is beyond all self and other distinctions, even beyond the mediacy of perception (244).
Academic text (2004) -
They are known in the first act of knowing anything else, hence their firstness.
Academic text (2000) -
I, I, I'd like to get back to how, the, how he arrived at these three categories, firstness, secondness and thirdness.
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Peirce's recognition of firstness demonstrates this because it is strongly coupled in his case to the necessity of turning raw experience into knowledge through mediation that he recognized places the cognizing subject at arm's length from raw experience, as the price paid for knowledge.
Academic text (2017) -
Daniel interprets this experience in terms of Peirce's concepts of Firstness, Secondness, and Thirdness, which is intriguing and does relate to the ethnographic description and Daniel's experience.
Academic text (2004) -
In philosophy, firstness refers to a direct experience that feels immediate and unmediated by other factors.
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The concept of firstness highlights experiences that arise spontaneously and without prior influence.
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Exploring firstness can lead to a deeper understanding of how we perceive feelings before they are categorized.
Synonyms
A state of being most important in a situation
The state of existing at the very beginning and coming before other things
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Firstness is built from first, meaning 'before' or 'earliest', and the ending -ness which makes a 'state' or quality. In philosophy it names the pure, direct feeling or possibility you have 'before' any relation or action, so it means the original, immediate way of experience.
