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The quality or state of being self-derived or self-originated.

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Usage examples (19)
  • Call this the sovereignty-aseity intuition (see Plantinga 1980, Davidson 1999).
  • One could attribute aseity or ˜self-existence 'to space-time, matter-energy and the universe as a whole.
  • Thomists bemoaned in their rivals the lack of the classical Aristotelian epistemology and the ontological notions of being, aseity, necessity, and changelessness.
  • If a philosophy lacks this living fundamentwhich is usually a sign that the ideal principle too was originally only feebly at work in itit loses itself in the kind of system...
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