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单词 self-existence
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self-existencen.

Brit. /ˌsɛlfᵻɡˈzɪst(ə)ns/, /ˌsɛlfɛɡˈzɪst(ə)ns/, U.S. /ˌsɛlfɪɡˈzɪst(ə)ns/, /ˌsɛlfɛɡˈzɪst(ə)ns/
Forms: see self- prefix and existence n.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: self- prefix, existence n.
Etymology: < self- prefix + existence n. Compare earlier self-existency n.
Existence of a being, person, etc., by virtue of intrinsic nature, independently of any other cause; an instance of this.
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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).
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