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    Being true, first, and immediate are the central conditions belonging to the definition of principles, whereas being better known qualifies principles only with respect to the conclusion.

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    • 1.Being true, first, and immediate concern what the principles are in themselves
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    • 2.Properties belonging to a thing's definition concern what it is in itself
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    • 3.Being better known is a qualification of principles relative to the conclusion, not intrinsic to them
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    • 1.For Aristotle, 'better known by nature' and 'better known to us' are both epistemic conditions that determine what counts as a genuine starting point for demonstration.
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    • 2.A proposition that is true and immediate but entirely unknown cannot function as a principle, since principles must be capable of grounding actual scientific knowledge.
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    • 3.Therefore, epistemic accessibility is partly constitutive of principlehood, not merely a relational qualifier added after the definition is fixed.
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    • 1.Frege and the logicist tradition hold that the primitiveness of logical axioms is inseparable from their self-evidence, making cognitive immediacy intrinsic to their status as first principles.
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    • 2.If self-evidence is intrinsic to axiom-hood rather than merely relational, then 'being better known' cannot be cleanly separated from the definitional core of a principle.
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    Being better known(as used in logic and epistemology)
    More understandable or familiar compared to something else.
    Being true(as used in logic and metaphysics)
    Actually corresponding to reality or being factually correct, rather than false or made up.
    Central conditions(as used in logic)
    The most important requirements or features that something must have.
    Conclusion(Output of an Argument; may be singular (C) or plural (C1, C2, etc.))
    A logically interconnected result produced by an Argument within a Deduction
    Immediate(suggesting direct access to experience without barriers)
    Direct and unmediated—happening without anything in between; experienced firsthand without interpretation or delay.
    definition(Standard philosophical conception of what a definition must accomplish)
    Something that provides necessary and sufficient conditions for some thing x to be F
    principles(Explicitly equated with 'invariant reasons' in the passage)
    Invariant reasons — moral considerations that apply consistently regardless of particular circumstances

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    A demonstration must have as starting-points appropriate principles (NLP I.19, 106–7): true, first, immediate, prior to, better known than, and causes of the conclusion (NLP I.6, 34; DOS 503; 558). Of these conditions, to be true, first (or primitive), and immediate are the central ones: first because there is nothing prior to it in its kind—otherwise the source of scientific knowledge rests on an infinite series of demonstrations (NLP I.8, 43; I.11, 53); immediate because there is no medium bet
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