a new explanation of “Primacy of Existence and Quiddity” from abdollhossein khosropanah

Abstract

The issue of primacy of existence or quiddity, is one of the important philosophical issues. Some philosophers have gravitated to primacy of existence and some of them have gravitated to primacy of quiddity. The preferred viewpoint in this essay (professor Khosropanah’s viewpoint) is primacy of existence and quiddity. According to this view, the external fact is the real, essential and without conditional mode of the referent belonging to the meaning of existence and quiddity. This viewpoint does not imply that one external thing becomes two things, because there is evidence that numerous meanings have filled the external world objectively not uniquely. Besides, it does not imply that essence and existence are co-ranked, because their status is different in terms of different aspects and from the viewpoint of two different analyses: rational and conventional. Primacy of existence and quiddity is considered to be of inherent propositions, i.e. the true conception of its premises brings about the result. In the end, some of the ontological and epistemological results of this viewpoint are mentioned in relation to the problem of generation (Al – ja’l), primary and secondary intelligibles and also the problem of correspondence.