Exploring the Relocation of Primary and Secondary Philosophical Intelligibles and Proposing a New Classification Based on the Primacy of Existence

The principle of the primacy of existence leads to a shift and reclassification of primary and secondary philosophical Intelligibles. According to the principle of the primacy of existence, existence must have individuals or concrete counterparts and cannot be considered a secondary Intelligible without a concrete external counterpart. Additionally, based on this principle, the attributes of existence are aspects of the essence of existence and will have concreteness and externality similar to existence itself, whereas essences only have conceptual identities and lack externality. This issue is examined through a descriptive-analytical approach, revealing that neither can the claim of reclassifying all intelligibles be fully accepted, nor can one assert the lack of externality of existence and its true attributes. Based on the effects of the principle of the primacy of existence on the nature of intelligibles and considering the ontological and epistemological explanations of intelligibles, as well as the differentiation between true attributes of existence and other intelligibles, the findings of this paper lead to the conclusion that the principle of the primacy of existence results in existence and its true attributes being primary intelligibles in both epistemological and ontological explanations. Essences are considered secondary philosophical intelligibles from an ontological perspective but primary from an epistemological perspective. Intrinsic attributes of existence, relative, additional, and negational intelligibles will be secondary philosophical intelligibles according to both epistemological and ontological explanations. The reclassification of intelligibles also leads to a new classification based on the principle of the primacy of existence.