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Etymology
Calque of German immer schon.
Adverb
always already
- (philosophy) By definition or inherently; a priori.
2017 May 5, Thom Brooks, Sebastian Stein, Hegel's Political Philosophy: On the Normative Significance of Method and System, Oxford University Press, →ISBN:From PK's perspective, PK is always already achieved. Since every geistige being always already participates in PK, the most 'complete bias' possible is when a thinker is utterly mistaken about PK: independently of how false a notion of […]
2018 November 29, Calvin Thomas, Adventures in Theory: A Compact Anthology, Bloomsbury Publishing USA, →ISBN, page 147:Hence individuals are 'abstract' with respect to the subjects, which they always-already are. [...] That an individual is always-already a subject, even before he is born, is nevertheless the plain reality, accessible to everyone […]
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