The word "spirit" bounces from the me to the not-me and back again, yet amid this legerdemain Emerson formulates a profound and primitive fact about the human condition — "the total disparity between the evidence of our own being, and the evidence of the world's being".
It is just a primitive fact about these attitudes (and many others) that they have this sort of incompatibility.
Nonetheless, taking meaning inclusion to be a primitive fact also makes it more difficult to distinguish Lewis' analytic necessity from the rationalists' synthetic necessity, despite his (Lewis (1946), 157) vigorous rejection of the latter.
Once you feel that you have a legitimately solid grasp on a primitive fact of life, they do a few experiments with quantum optics and atomic clocks, explain their work at a laser conference, then suddenly the rug has been pulled right out from under you, and you're shopping for a new wristwatch.
The fact that, other things equal, an institution's say-so makes law, is a primitive legal fact, or at least a legal fact that is not to be explained by either the nature of interpretation or by a substantive interpretive conclusion in the legal domain.
So primitive, in fact, that although I live a mile from the Atlantic Ocean and have walked its beaches for 30-some years, I had never thought about extracting the salt from the sea where I taught my kids to swim, threw balls for my dogs, swam with my wife and watched many a lovely lass fight the waves.
Leśniewski knew that other predicates than 'ε' could be taken as primitive, a fact emphasized later by Lejewski.
Some natural mechanism for effecting the right links must be at work for it cannot just be a primitive inexplicable fact that 'the Big Bang' refers to the Big Bang.
The well-being of primitive society, in fact, demands the recognition of a hierarchy of values in which the lower is always dependent on the higher and in which the highest is regarded as the transcendental source of values outside and above mankind and the natural order.
In fact primitive roots exist only for the following several cases: q = 1, 2, 4, p α, 2 p α, where p is an odd prime and α ≥ 1.
