underived
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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 W. T. (Walter Terence) Stace
Thus the qualities of the four elements are ultimate and underived, but all other qualities must be founded upon the position and arrangement of particles of the four elements.
From A Critical History of Greek Philosophy by W. T. (Walter Terence) Stace
Empedocles had believed in four ultimate and underived kinds of matter.
From A Critical History of Greek Philosophy by W. T. (Walter Terence) Stace
These things can grow up, autochthonous and underived, out of the soil of human nature anywhere, granting certain social conditions.
From The Homeric Hymns A New Prose Translation; and Essays, Literary and Mythological by Andrew Lang
The old kindliness must be transplanted to a fresh soil if it were to blossom into a life self-sufficient and underived.
From Second String by Anthony Hope
