Hence the proverb, “A Datum of good things,” like “Piles of plenty.
The shaded rectangles represent the distribution of shear due to the load at C, while no may be termed the datumline of shear.
The contract plans should be very carefully prepared, and sections, plans and elevations of all parts of the buildings and the levels from a datum line be given.
Actually the situation is progressively redefined by the consequences of the actions, provoked by the previous definitions, and a prison experience is designed to provide a datum toward the redefinition of the situation.
It is the body of material with which every new datum of experience comes into contact, to which it is related, and in connection with which it gets its meaning.
With this as a datum his studies are directed to the discovery of the nature and causes of diseases, and to the invention of devices for curing them.
He has his place in its religious legend in the current datum that he wrought for the faith by restoring a suppressed public worship and enabling the people of France once more to hear church-bells.
A similar declaration may be made of that other datum of metageometrical knowledge which postulates the ultimate convergence of parallel lines.
One of the most marked peculiarities of the human intellect is the fact that it always unavoidably stamps its own nature and features upon every datum which passes through it to the consciousness.
Normally every datum of sense is at once devoured by a hungry intellect and digested for the sake of its vital juices.
If practical instinct did not stretch what is given into what is meant, reason could never recognise the datum for a copy of an ideal object.
The categories are the principles of interpretation by which the flat datum acquires this perspective in thought and becomes representative of a whole system of successive or collateral existences.
As the subject-matter recedes the mental datum ceases to have much similarity or inward relevance to what is its cause or its meaning.
For even here, in the presence of a datum something virtual and potential is called up, namely, what the given thing was a moment ago, what it is growing into, or what it is contrasted with in character.
As sensorydatum is material set for the work of thought, so the ideational forms with which thought does its work are apt and prompt to meet the needs of the material.
That is, the datum and the thought-mode or idea as connected are the object of thought.
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On the one hand, our subject-matter would not have become a clearly recognized datum with which we must deal; on the other hand, there would be no ideal method of construing it.
Our only difficulty here is that the mind flies away from the logical interpretation of sense-datum to a ready-made notion of it brought over from abstract psychological inquiry.
It is interesting to note also that he states the datum in terms different from those in which the antecedents of thought are defined.
But as the direction of the eyes becomes parallel as soon as the distance of the object reaches or exceeds 200 feet, and as the optic angle consequently then ceases to exist, this datum only holds good within the said distance.
Here the only immediate datum is the sensation experienced by the retina, which, though admitting of great variety, may still be reduced to the impression of light and dark with their intermediate gradations and to that of colours proper.
Thus it is not easy to snuff a candle with one eye shut, because this datum is then wanting.
In Italy, where the atmosphere is very transparent, this datum loses its power and is apt to mislead: Tivoli, for instance, seems to be very near when seen from Frascati.
As however these modifications are not available for the purposes of clear sight beyond the range of from about 7 inches to 16 feet, the Understanding is only able to apply this datum within those limits.
These movements are most conspicuous along coasts, where they can be referred to the datum plane of sea level; we will therefore take our first illustrations from rising and sinking shores.
Although it serves our convenience to refer the movements of the crust to the sea level as datum plane, it is understood that this level is by no means fixed.
The original of the Sacro Convento bearsDatum Laterani XV.
The original is at Assisi with Datum apud Urbem Veterem X.
The original, which I have had under my eyes in the archives of Assisi, bears in fact: Datum Anagnie XI.
The simpler form of the date of a lesser bull might be: Datum Laterani, iii.
For example, a common form of a full date would run thus: Datum Laterani, per manum N.
This plausible but dangerous detail, however, is not insisted on; what is essential is thedatum of long oral tradition.
Given the datum of an original cult-sacrament which had grown out of an ancient ritual-sacrifice, the crucifixion is the first step towards the establishment of a biography of Jesus.
Voluntary or responsible activity is not an idea or datum of sense, nor can it be realised in sensuous imagination.
For the Active Power in which we live, move, and have our being, is not a datum of sense; meditation brings it into light.
He supposes that Locke means by idea only a concrete datum of sense, or of imagination; and he argues that we cannot without contradiction abstract from all such data, and yet retain idea.
May we think of it as a datum of sense existing in the striking body, and then passing from it into the struck body, the one losing exactly as much as the other receives?
He minimises Space, treating it as a datumof sense.
For showing the active cause at work in the production of motion in bodies, it is of no avail to name, as if it were a datum of sense, what is not presentable to our senses.
The assumption that active power is an immediate datum of sense is the example here offered of the abase of abstract words.
Since yt what we imagine must be datum aliquod; a thing can't be greater than itself.
The bull omne datum optimum was considered a great inroad upon the rights of the church, and broke the union which had originally subsisted between the Templars and the ecclesiastics.
It was this pontiff who, who by the bull omne datum optimum, promulgated in the year 1162, conceded to the Templars the privilege of having their own cemeteries free from the interference of the regular clergy.
We read on many old charters and deeds, "Datum apud vetus Templum Londoniae.
The year 1162 is conspicuous in the annals of the Templars, as the date of the bull Omne Datum Optimum, the Magna Charta of the order, and the great key-stone of their power.
The bull, Omne Datum Optimum, issued on this occasion, gave permission to the Templars to receive into their houses spiritual persons, in all countries, who were not bound by previous vows.
Datum and ideatum come first, psychical and physical next in order.
Once more, and briefly, bothdatum and ideatum may .
But when a confused object is made a datum for inference, its confusion is just the thing to be got rid of.
Its net result would seem to be the conclusion that every fact may be dealt with either as a historical fact or as a datum for physical science.
In his third chapter Dewey discusses "Thought and its Subject-matter: The Datum of Thinking.
Thus the distinction between subjectivity and objectivity is not one between meaning as such and datum as such.
It is a specification that emerges, correspondently, in both datum and ideatum, as affairs of the direction of logical movement.
But the case stands otherwise when the quale is taken as a datum for inference.
The remedy is clearly the resolution, by experimental means, of what seems to be a simple datum into its "elements.
It is a specification that emerges, correspondently, in both datumand ideatum.
Furthermore (b) it is discovered that the most effective way of identifying datum (and securing adequate data) is by inference to its cause.
The datum is given in the thought-situation, and to further qualification of ideas or meanings.
On the contrary, I am trying to show that these problems exist only because of the identification of a datum determined with reference to control of inference with a self-sufficient knowledge-object.
Inference will usually take care of itself if the datum is properly determined.
It marks not a primitive psychologic datum but an outcome, a limit, of analysis of a vast amount of empirical objects.
It is assumed, that is, that the other term of a proposition in which a sense datum is one term must be the thing which produced it.
According to Mr. James, for example, the originaldatum is large but confused, and specific sensible qualities represent the result of discriminations.
That is, the datum and the meaning as reciprocally qualified by each other constitute the objective of thought.
The second, that of datum or immediately given matter, refers to a distinction which is made within the thought-process as a part of and for the sake of its own modus operandi.
But when it was found that only three per cent, of the persons marriageable, did marry, the datum was found insufficient to afford sure results.
Though the absolute cannot in any manner or degree be known, in the strict sense of knowing, yet we find that its positive existence is a necessarydatum of consciousness.
The belief which this datum of consciousness constitutes has a higher warrant than any other belief whatsoever.
And so also the only conceivable answer to the absolute datum question is to be found in the meaning of the word "I"--in the deepening back of consciousness itself.
The whole question is, whether there is any absolute datum in this direction or not.
