immediacy

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In general, immediacy is understood as the direct, original access to something. The term is common in everyday language as well as in science . Scientifically, it is particularly important in philosophy and law .

philosophy

In philosophy, "immediacy" is one of those expressions that are often used but are relatively little discussed. "Immediate" is generally what is given without prior processing or cause. So everything is immediate that is not made understandable by any process or any other explanation and is therefore original.

In various philosophical contexts, the question of what can be considered immediate in terms of content plays a role. So argue z. B. the philosophical directions of rationalism and empiricism around this very question: empiricism takes the view that the experience is given immediately, while the concepts are based on the experience. Rationalism, on the other hand, is of the opposite view that (at least some) concepts are immediately given (“innate”), while experience is constituted by concepts and is therefore not immediate.

The immediacy plays a special role in the philosophy of German idealism and in the dialectic that arises from it . There, immediacy is understood as the opposite of absoluteness. Both absolute and immediate instances are characterized by the fact that they are not derived from something else and are in this sense original. But they differ in that the originality in the immediacy is only apparent, while in the absolute it actually and in truth exists. In dialectics, therefore, the appearance of immediacy is always accompanied methodically with the demand to dissolve the appearance of immediacy and to show that and to what extent the apparently immediate is in truth mediated.

Jurisprudence

In jurisprudence, immediacy plays a role especially as the principle of immediacy .

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