principle of all principles

is the idea that everything offered to us in 'intuition' is to be accepted simply as what it is presented as being, but only within the limits that it is presented there.

It is in this context that Husserl presents his Principle of All Principles which states that, 'every originary preventive intuition is a legitimizing source of cognition, that everything originally (so to speak, in its 'personal' actuality) offered to us in 'intuition' is to be accepted simply as what it is presented as being, but also only within the limits in which it is presented there' (Husserl 1982, sec. 24). (stanford:phen)

principle of all principles, n.Definitions

principle of all principles