self-luminous
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
Etymology: From self- + luminous.
Base: luminous
Affixes: self-
Inflected forms:
form: more self-luminous
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most self-luminous
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Light-emitting.
pos: adj
examples: It has been a question whether comets are self-luminous, or whether they simply reflect the solar light.
The structure of the light organs and the observation of luminous phenomena of self-luminous fish have been investigated by Ohshima ( 1911 ) .
In 1915 von Sochocky developed a formula for a self-luminous paint.
gloss: Having a luminosity exceeding 100%.
pos: adj
gloss: Prominent or famous for virtue or greatness.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
examples: How the few such that have lived in the world stand out, self-luminous, amidst the darkness of the past, surrounded by the wreck of names remembered only for their crimes, and pointing to the admiring gaze of men the true path to glory's temple!
Very few have been born on earth who were self-luminous, whose light was not a borrowed light, who stood fully revealed in their own radiance of truth.
On the whole, it is a good company of self-luminous men—fit to flash great beams of light from the academic Watch towers of agricultural progress.
gloss: Self-illuminating; knowable only as its unambiguous self; self-evident.
pos: adj
examples: The active sense of living which we all enjoy, before reflection shatters our instinctive world for us, is self-luminous and suggests no paradoxes.
But as difference is a positive condition of the reason, I cannot deduce it without presupposing it; I cannot explain it except by itself, because it is an original, self-luminous, self-attesting reality.
"The necessity to assent to them", according to Stumpf's paraphrase: is not rooted in a blind psychological compulsion, but rather in their inner, self-luminous evidence. [...] He [Brentano] conscluded further that what is evident is true not only for our understanding, but for every possible understanding, for it is only the special light of the thing itself.
gloss: Self-illuminating; knowable only as its unambiguous self; self-evident.
pos: adj
tags: India
examples: Finally, life emerges as a self-conscious, self-luminous Intelligence in man who not only thinks, feels and moves but is also conscious of being the subject, the knower of thinking, feeling and willing and controls, directs all these fluctuating States and processes of mind either towards the service of the self or towards bondage to mundane values.
A cognition is an illuminator in respet of its content only and this content, as the illuminated, is always other than itself. But a cognition is also aware of it as an act. but this is only in distinction from its content as other than itself. In other words, it is never its own content (visaya) and is not self cognitive or self-luminous in that sense.
The self is self-luminous and so it does not need another cognition to become known.
According to the Buddhist idealist, a cognition is self-luminous ; it apprehends itself but not an external object as there is no such object ; a cognition is not apprehended by the self because there is no self at all.
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