inderivative

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English

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Etymology

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From in- +‎ derivative.

Adjective

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inderivative (comparative more inderivative, superlative most inderivative)

  1. (philosophy) Without derivation, autonomous.
    • 2015, Flavia Santoianni, The Concept of Time in Early Twentieth-Century Philosophy:
      Only if comprehension is meant as a primary phenomenon can time be thought as an ecstatic disclosedness, i.e. an original, ontologically inderivative, unprogrammable non-functionalistic and essential temporality, which always involves and concerns us.