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    Challenges→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.

    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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    Cognitive immediacy(as the mental process of understanding logical truths)
    The direct, instant way your mind grasps something as true, without needing to work through steps of reasoning.
    Frege(as a major historical figure in philosophy)
    Gottlob Frege (1848-1925) was a German logician and philosopher who founded modern logic and did groundbreaking work on how language relates to meaning and existence.
    Logical axioms(as the foundational rules being discussed)
    Basic statements or rules of logic that are assumed to be true without proof, like 'something cannot both be and not be at the same time.'
    Logicist tradition(as the philosophical approach being described)
    A school of thought in philosophy and mathematics that argues all mathematical truths can ultimately be proven from basic logical laws, with no need for additional assumptions.

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    Primitiveness(describing logical axioms as foundational)
    The quality of being basic, fundamental, or impossible to break down into simpler parts.
    Self-evidence(epistemology)
    The quality of being so obviously true that it doesn't need explanation or argument to back it up.
    first principles(The foundational class of certain knowledge in Scotus's epistemology)
    Judgments that are self-evidently true upon intellectual formation, requiring no prior derivation

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