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- DictionaryPri·ma·cy/ˈprīməsē/
noun
- 1. the fact of being primary, preeminent, or more important: "the primacy of air power in the modern war"
- 2. the office, period of office, or authority of a primate of certain churches: "the first years of his primacy were tranquil"
2 days ago · Christianity is a major religion stemming from the life, teachings, and death of Jesus of Nazareth in the 1st century CE. It has become the largest of the world’s religions and, geographically, the most widely diffused.
23 hours ago · The beginning is also particularly important in creating a primacy effect, setting off our mind in a certain direction and thereby influencing our entire reception of the work. We may make a broad distinction between “orientational” and “abrupt” textual beginnings—the latter type confronting the reader with an ongoing action, without ...
2 days ago · In metaphysics, ontology is the philosophical study of being. It investigates what types of entities exist, how they are grouped into categories, and how they are related to one another on the most fundamental level (and whether there even is a fundamental level). [1]
2 days ago · Subjectivism is a philosophical tenet that accords primacy to subjective experience as fundamental of all measure and law. In extreme forms such as solipsism, it may hold that the nature and existence of every object depends solely on someone's subjective awareness of it.
5 days ago · Mannerism, (from maniera, “manner,” or “style”), artistic style that predominated in Italy from the end of the High Renaissance in the 1520s to the beginnings of the Baroque style around 1590. The Mannerist style originated in Florence and Rome and spread to northern Italy and, ultimately, to much of central and northern Europe.
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4 days ago · Idealism in philosophy, also known as philosophical idealism or metaphysical idealism, is the set of metaphysical perspectives asserting that, most fundamentally, reality is equivalent to mind, spirit, or consciousness; that reality is entirely a mental construct; or that ideas are the highest type of reality or have the greatest claim to being ...
5 days ago · Primary election, in the United States, election to select candidates to run for public office. Primaries may be closed, allowing only declared party members to vote, or open, enabling all voters to choose which party’s primary they wish to vote in. Primaries may also be either direct or indirect.
