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Another word for fundament

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Noun

  1. The lowest or supporting part or structure

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    over

  2. That on which something immaterial, such as an argument or a charge, rests

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    over

  3. A fundamental principle or underlying concept

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    over

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  • His main principles will be found in his Dat Fundament des Christelycken Leers (1 539, 8vo).

  • In order for such higher art to exist it must have a healthy popular fundament to support it, to paraphrase Pound.

  • And whenever things threaten to disappear up their own fundament, director Michael Cabot skilfully nudges humor into the fore.

  • The development of the Kantian standpoint contained in the "New Theory of Human Understanding" (1789), and in the Fundament des philosophischen Wissens (1791), was called by its author Elementarphilosophie.

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