diremption

[ dih-remp-shuhn ]

noun

1. a sharp division into two parts; disjunction; separation.

Word History and Origins

Origin of diremption¹

1615–25; < Latin diremptiōn- (stem of diremptiō ), equivalent to dirempt ( us ) (past participle of dirimere to separate, equivalent to dis- dis- ¹ + -imere, combining form of emere to take, buy) + -ion- -ion

Example Sentences

The judgment or diremption of this self-consciousness is the consciousness of a “free” object, in which ego is aware of itself as an ego, which however is also still outside it.

From Project Gutenberg

The Platonic and Neo-Platonic 'matter,' a principle of diremption or individuation, like time and space for Schopenhauer, was an attempt to solve this problem; but something more positive seemed to be needed as the source of the stronger manifestations of evil.

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The diremption of individualities becomes explicit in those forms.

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Boehme.—Another writer of this transition period deserves a passing reference here, namely, Jacob Boehme the mystic, who by his conception of a process of inner diremption as the essential character of all mind, and so of God, prepared the way for later German theories of the origin of the world as the self-differentiation and self-externalization of the absolute spirit.

From Project Gutenberg

If we turn now to those experiences from which this inner diremption of fact and meaning is absent, we find a process that is essentially the same in kind.

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