21. Primality is essential to will

    - conceptual analysis of willing, on a literal construal of the concept,
      indicates that primality is essential to will
        : see @ 01_objective_basis.brec
        / here ‘primality’ means ‘the quality or condition of being primal’,
          of ‘belonging to the earliest time or stage’, of being ‘original, first’
            : see https://doi.org/10.1093/OED/8057016138 : Oxford English Dictionary,
              s.v. “primality (n.), sense 1,” July 2023. :
             ‘As a mass noun: the quality or condition of being primal’
            : see https://doi.org/10.1093/OED/4431311163 : Oxford English Dictionary,
              s.v. “primal (adj.), sense 2.a,” September 2024. :
             ‘Belonging to the earliest time or stage; original, first.’
        - conceptual analysis of willing, on a literal construal of the concept,
           indicates that determinative freedom is essential to will
            : see @ 23_determinative_freedom.brec
        - but if a will so construed (⁠W⁠) exists and is determinatively free as indicated,
          then for any possible determination ⁠W_d⁠ of ⁠W⁠:
            / whether ⁠W_d⁠ is an instance of willing or an absence of willing:
            - one of the following is true
                ⁃ ⁠W_d⁠ is an event
                    ∴ it has a causal factor (⁠W_c⁠) that is original to ⁠W⁠
                    ∴ always ⁠W_c⁠ was there
                    ∴ always ⁠W⁠ was there
                ⁃ ⁠W_d⁠ is not an event
                    ∴ always ⁠W_d⁠ was there
                    ∴ always ⁠W⁠ was there
            ∴ always ⁠W⁠ was there
            ∴ ⁠W⁠ is primal
                : re `primal` see `^*: see .+/doi.org/10.1093/OED/4431311163`
        ∴ conceptual analysis of willing, on a literal construal of the concept,
          indicates that primality is essential to will as claimed
            : re `conceptual analysis.+concept` see `^*- but if a will so construed.+exists and is.+free`
            : re `∴(.+) as claimed$`s see `^*-${same}`p


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