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German
Etymology
From ur- (“primal”) + Stiftung (“institution”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈuːrˌʃtɪftʊŋ/
- Hyphenation: Ur‧stif‧tung
Noun
Urstiftung f (genitive Urstiftung, plural Urstiftungen)
- (philosophy, phenomenology) the most original foundation of sense or experience.
2010, Rodion Ebbighausen, Die Genealogie der europäischen Krisis: in der Perspektive der Interpretations philosophie Friedrich Nietzsches und der transzendentalen Phänomenologie Edmund Husserls, Königshausen & Neumann, →ISBN, page 332:In diesem Zusammenhang ist der husserlsche Terminus der Urstiftung zu erörtern. Er wird von Husserl auf zwei Weisen gebraucht, die ineinander übergehen. So kann Urstiftung erstens im Sinne von Evidenz gebraucht werden.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
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