underived

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Consciousness, on the other hand, which for Fortlage coincides with the ego or self, is treated as the presupposition of all representations, not as their result—it is underived activity.

From History of Modern Philosophy From Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time by Falckenberg, Richard

The opposite of monism is therefore pluralism, which is that kind of philosophy which seeks to explain the universe from many ultimate and equally underived principles.

From A Critical History of Greek Philosophy by Stace, W. T. (Walter Terence)

If their rights are inherent and underived, they may, by their own suffrages, encircle, with a diadem, the brows of Mr. Cushing.

From The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 06 Reviews, Political Tracts, and Lives of Eminent Persons by Johnson, Samuel

The power of the intellect is not some underived, original, independent power which can impose or, better, superimpose its categorical imperatives upon human conduct.

From The Philosophy of Spinoza by Ratner, Joseph

Mark the grand 'I live'—the timeless present tense, which expresses unbroken, underived, undying, and, as I believe, divine life.

From Expositions of Holy Scripture St. John Chapters I to XIV by Maclaren, Alexander