He asserts the priority of the political interpretation of literary texts, claiming it to be at the center of all reading and understanding, not just a supplement or auxiliary to other methods current today.
Kant's explicit arguments in the Nova dilucidatio for physical influx (in the guise of the principle of succession) are directed primarily against the conception of grounds and existence held by Wolff, Baumgarten, and Meier, and only secondarily against Leibniz (by asserting the priority of bodies over mind rather than vice versa).
Mīr Dāmād returned to Avicenna and sought to harmonize his views with those of al-Suhrawardī on the assumption that what Avicenna meant by his "Oriental" (mashriqiyyah) philosophy was identical with al-Suhrawardī's wisdom of "illumination" (ishrāq), which he interpreted as a Platonic doctrine that asserted the priority of essence (form) over being (existence).
Told at its simplest level, Hadley v. Baxendale is the tale of a litigation contest between two local merchants and a London-based entrepreneur in which the local jury decided for the local merchants and the London judges asserted the priority of their judgment for the national entrepreneur.
The fragment itself asserts the priority of the science of calculation (ha logistika, "logistic") to the other sciences, such as geometry, and thus suggests a technical work of mathematics.
In Galen's view, qualitative alteration is needed to produce the powers whereby beneficent Nature directs change: Galen credits the first group with asserting the priority of Nature and its beneficent order, and the latter with denying this.
According to Beauchamp (1976), "public health should be a way of doing justice, a way of asserting the value and priority of all human life" (p. 8), regardless of what one did to merit incarceration.
They know what they want, which they turn into a set of priorities and a budget before I can assert the mother of the bride's traditional right to run the show.
To me, the gravest danger is to assert the primacy of American economic renewal and then ignore the tough foreign and domestic choices that must attend this priority.
But it did assert the dignity of the author.
