originary

Speech parts

1. originary - Noun

2. originary - Adjective

Meaning

Causing existence; productive.

Primitive; primary; original.

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Examples

The world must be romanticized. In this way the originary meaning may be found again. Novalis

By demonstrating the aporias and ellipses of thought, Derrida hoped to show the infinitely subtle ways that this originary complexity, which by definition cannot ever be completely known, works its structuring and destructuring effects. Source: Internet

This originary complexity must not be understood as an original positing, but more like a default of origin, which Derrida refers to as iterability, inscription, or textuality. Source: Internet

Derrida's method consisted in demonstrating the forms and varieties of this originary complexity, and their multiple consequences in many fields. Source: Internet

Stiegler understands Derrida's thinking of textuality and inscription in terms of a thinking of originary technicity, and in this context speaks of "the originary default of origin that arche-writing constitutes" (p. 239). Source: Internet

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