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self-subsistent

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A major group of ancient philosophers (al-hukama) say that time is a sempiternal, necessarily self-subsistent substance jawhar azali wajib al-wujud li dhatihi) which has no essential nor existential connection with either the celestial sphere or with motion.
This university town was anything but static or self-subsistent, and this book gives a fine-grained account of the give and take, the back and forth that animated its economic life in the early modern period.
With regard to this latter level, as the things of the empirical world are physical in nature, they are all generally ambiguous because they appear to our consciousness to point to themselves, as if they each have an independent, individual, and self-subsistent reality, and not to that of which they are simply signs and symbols.
 
 
 
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