What is it and what does it mean to you. Use it in three instances, that shade it differently. (Anyone using online dictionaries, cutting and pasting lengthy parcels of others' work will be disqualified and reported for spam.)
2007-08-09T20:27:15Z
I know what section I am in - this is a philosophical question. I also know what spam is - and when someone doesn't have the courtesy to use their own brain, but broadcasts readily available definitions, that is also spam. Canned meatlike goop!
David L2007-08-10T17:17:40Z
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"Primary" has general senses such as "basic", "fundamental", "mainly", but more importantly it carries a meaning also of indivisible. A cell may be considered prime or primary. An atom may be considered prime; but perhaps not really, as things in the natural world can be divided into smaller things.
So primary has more to do with universality. I believe there are two things which are primary or prime among ideas: certain numbers, and certain semantemes.
From mathematics we know what numbers are prime, and they are infinite. Though 1 may in another sense be considered the only true prime number if we are talking about adding.
But what interests me is that meanings (semantemes) have among them primes, which are used in word formation to generate all other meanings in a language. Those are universals, such as: opposite, remove, negate, contain, edge, separate, about, continual,... . I am interested in this field.
I would like to know if you know what SPAM is? To cut and paste a fact or two in order to answer a question, does not denote spam.... ....now open up a can of a dog food like meat, slice it, serve it as if it is edible, and there you will find Spam.... ....and that type of spam, I would be happy to let you report - cause it is clogging up the systems too!