always already

English

Etymology

Calque of German immer schon.

Adverb

always already

1. (philosophy) By definition or inherently; a priori.
   • 2017 May 5, Thom Brooks, Sebastian Stein, Hegel's Political Philosophy: On the Normative Significance of Method and System, Oxford University Press, →ISBN:

     From PK's perspective, PK is always already achieved. Since every geistige being always already participates in PK, the most 'complete bias' possible is when a thinker is utterly mistaken about PK: independently of how false a notion of […]

   • 2018 November 29, Calvin Thomas, Adventures in Theory: A Compact Anthology, Bloomsbury Publishing USA, →ISBN, page 147:

     Hence individuals are 'abstract' with respect to the subjects, which they always-already are. [...] That an individual is always-already a subject, even before he is born, is nevertheless the plain reality, accessible to everyone […]

Alternative forms

• always-already