The further argument of absolute idealism differs from that of Plato in that the dependence of truth upon the mind is accepted as a first principle.
Such then are the various paths which lead from subjectivism to other types of philosophy, demonstrating the peculiar aptitude of the former for departing from its first principle.
Nor have attempts to avoid mysticism, while retaining Schopenhauer's first principle, been successful.
We affirm it on a first principle, they deny it on a first principle; and on either side the first principle is made to be decisive of the question .
Here, indeed, is a short and easy way of getting rid of the whole subject, not by reason, but by a first principle which he calls reason.
Next, as to the proposition, that things exist external to ourselves, this I do consider a first principle, and one of universal reception.
Sometimes our trust in our powers of reasoning and memory, that is, our implicit assent to their telling truly, is treated as a first principle; but we cannot properly be said to have any trust in them as faculties.
Defn: That which forms the foundation or support of anything; the basis; the essential or fundamental part; first principle.
That from which anything springs; origin; first principle; as, the germ of civil liberty.
This address is famous in the history of geology, because for the first time it stated clearly and in permanent form a doctrine now taken as a first principle in all geological text-books.
That which forms the foundation or support of anything; the basis; the essential or fundamental part; first principle.
Immortality was here a postulate, a first principle.
And God proclaims as a first principle to the rulers, and above all else, that there is nothing which they should so anxiously guard, or of which they are to be such good guardians, as of the purity of the race.
Further, in every genus there is a first principle.
With more or less clearness, men in all ages have apprehended that "the First Principle must be one or nothing.
Every system of philosophy is essentially an effort to show how the universe that now is has been originated by, or evolved out of, or has emanated from, a First Principle, an absolute Unity.
And God proclaims as a first principle to the rulers, and above all else, that there is nothing which should so anxiously guard, or of which they are to be such good guardians, as of the purity of the race.
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