单词 | self-existence |
释义 | self-existencen. Existence of a being, person, etc., by virtue of intrinsic nature, independently of any other cause; an instance of this. 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 the world > the supernatural > deity > Christian God > nature or attributes of God > [noun] > self-sufficiency > self-existence self-being1587 self-existency1602 self-existence1643 1643 K. Digby Observ. Religio Medici 51 For his [sc. God's] essence being (as I said before) selfe-existence, it is more impossible that Not-being should flow from him, then that cold should flow immediately from fire. 1697 J. Sergeant Solid Philos. 84 Even Self-existence signifies a kind of Form or Mode of the Subject that Self-exists. 1712 R. Blackmore Creation iii. 113 'Tis plain, it then may absent be from all; Who then will this a Self-existence call? 1773 W. S. Powell Charge to Clergy Archdeaconry Colchester 11 Self-existence, and necessary existence, and absolute independency are essential attributes of the Deity. 1809 S. T. Coleridge Friend 14 Sept. 78 Of Eternity and Self-existence what other Likeness is possible in a finite Being, but Immortality and moral Self-determination! 1862 H. Spencer First Princ. i. ii. §11. 31 Even were self-existence conceivable, it would not in any sense be an explanation of the Universe. 1908 Harvard Theol. Rev. 1 484 Professor Howison..places the human selves upon the same level, as respects self-existence and self-origination, with God. 2001 M. Palmer Question of God 73 The scholastic notion of..self-existence, in which God's being, eternal and incorruptible, is causally independent of any other being. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, January 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1643 |
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