By clinging the mind hypostatizes all names whereby to give definitions to all things.
There are others such as the definitionsof jalpa, chala, nigrahasthâna, etc.
Logic) A prerequisite to a clear understanding of the predicaments and categories, such as definitions of common terms.
Logic) Characterizing that kind of reasoning which deduces consequences from definitions formed, or principles assumed, or which infers effects from causes previously known; deductive or deductively.
It succumbs to no definitions of time and space, is neither finite nor infinite, neither great nor small, neither quiescent nor moved; but it is and it is not all this.
This progression of numbers out of zero takes place through a process of becoming determinate and limited; just as the real triangles are only definitions of the absolute triangle.
To the plant belong all the definitions that have been hitherto deduced.
The legitimate series of gradations comprised in the above four definitions cannot escape the attentive reader, nor moreover that the properties of the earths are all affirmative.
For these are at once definitions of the spirit, words that have been already completed and expressed, and cannot be recalled; so also the ore will not again become clay, even if it be submitted to light.
His enemies were not slow in seizing upon these definitions and in twisting them into a denial of the sovereign rights of the Crown.
Too many teachers have children learn rules and definitions which mean little or nothing to them.
All rules and definitions committed without knowing their meaning or seeing their application, and all lessons learned merely to recite without a reasonable grasp of their meaning, sink only as deep as the memory level.
The definitions given by the hard-money men themselves have been used as arguments by those who believe in the power of Congress to create wealth.
So many false definitions have been given, so many strange, conflicting theories have been advanced, that it is not at all surprising that men have come to imagine that money is something that can be created by law.
And such definitions of evil sometimes took the form of laws, supposed to have been received by supernatural means, sometimes of the commands of rulers or assemblies to whom infallibility was attributed.
But men were not ready to accept the solution given by Christ, and the old definitions of evil, which ought to be resisted, continued to be laid down by means of making laws binding on all and enforced by forcible means.
And to do this from the earliest time men have devised definitions of evil and tried to make them binding on everyone.
Where he operates with popular notions he prefers to speak hypothetically or to refer to what is generally assumed; or he is content to use only definitions which will also agree with his own philosophical conception of God.
Finally, Plato gives the above-mentioned definitions of impiety and fixes the severest punishment for it—for downright denial of the gods, when all attempts at conversion have failed, the penalty of death.
Repeat and illustrate definitions and rules; illustrate fully what is taught of the position of phrases, and of the punctuation of phrases, connected terms, and exclamatory expressions.
Repeat and illustrate definitions and rules; illustrate what is taught of the capitalization and the abbreviation of names, and of the position of adjectives and adverbs.
Study carefully the Definitions and the Remark above, and then compose sentences in which a noun or a pronoun shall be put in the nominative case in four ways; in the objective in five ways; in the possessive in two ways.
Repeat and illustrate definitions and rules; explain and illustrate fully the distinction between an adjective complement and an adverb modifier; illustrate what is taught of the forms I, we, etc.
Particularity and intimate relation cannot be divided,--in the former case in consequence of the infinite number of separate particularities, in the latter from intimate relation being but one; their definitions have been given before.
In the same manner are to be made the definitions of throwing downwards, &c.
In the same way may be formed the definitions of the rest.
The general terms atmatva and manastva are the respective definitions of soul (atman) and mind (manas).
Footnote 334: He here is trying to show that his view is confirmed by the commonly received definitions of some grammatical terms.
According to this, the definitions of which we have now treated are only one of two sorts into which definitions may be divided, viz.
In the fuller discussion which Archbishop Whately has given to this subject in his later editions, he almost ceases to regard the definitions of names and those of things as, in any important sense, distinct.
Although, according to the opinion here presented, Definitions are properly of names only, and not of things, it does not follow from this thatdefinitions are arbitrary.
The two former we infer from the testimony adduced, or from the traces of those past occurrences which still exist; the latter, from the premises laid down in books of geometry, under the title of definitions and axioms.
And since the classifications in any science are continually modified as scientific knowledge advances, the definitions in the sciences are also constantly varying.
Would it not be very hard to expect anyone to solve a problem in conic sections who had merely been taught the axioms and definitions of mathematical science?
Both of these definitions point to the real and matter-of-fact aspect of the traditional uruisg or brollachan.
Hence we shall devote a number of pages to thesedefinitions in very complete form before proceeding to elucidate for you the various methods of dealing, laying and reading the cards.
Even Gassendi has defined duration “an incorporeal flowing extension,” which is a good instance of the success that can attend such definitions of simple ideas.
For there is not one that begins his ratiocination from the definitions or explications of the names they are to use, which is a method used only in geometry, whose conclusions have thereby been made indisputable.
The later propositions in Spinosa are chiefly obvious corollaries from the definitions and a few of the first propositions which contain the whole theory, which he proceeds to expand.
And every man who aspires to true knowledge, should examine thedefinitions of former authors, and either correct them or make them anew.
Descartes was perhaps the first who saw that definitions of words, already as clear as they can be made, are nugatory or impenetrable.
The second book of the Ethics begins, like the first, with definitions and axioms.
It rests on definitionsand axioms, from which the propositions are derived in close, brief, and usually perspicuous demonstrations.
The identity of the two definitions of a volume is evident when we remember that an intersecting moment divides the event into two adjoined events.
The assumption arises from the failure to make another distinction; namely, that there may be alternative definitions of absolute position.
There is a certain continuity inherent in the observed unity of an event, and these two definitions of junction are really axioms based on observation respecting the character of this continuity.
The exposition of these definitions and the preliminary explanations necessary will, I hope, serve as a general explanation of the function of event-particles in the analysis of nature.
We proceed to define them without any reference to the definitions of volumes and surfaces.
We will first consider the definition of some of these abstractive elements, namely the definitions of solids, of areas, and of routes.
If either of these alternative definitions is adopted as the definition of junction, the other definition appears as an axiom respecting the character of junction as we know it in nature.
What I have done is to give precise definitions of the procedure by which the abstraction is effected.
By these definitions location in elements of instantaneous spaces is defined.
These you must define for yourself as you go along; and change and revise your definitions as you rise or descend in the Sacred Order.
Let the botanist or the zoologist examine and describe the productions of a country, and one will pretty certainly disagree with the other as to the number, limits, and definitions of the species into which he groups the very same things.
Novel and devoid of authority as some of Professor Owen's proposed definitions may have been, they might be accepted without changing the great features of the case.
I believe that all other definitions of justice are defective mainly because other definitions such as those of Herbert Spencer in his book entitled "Justice" confound justice with liberty.
The whole genius of an author consists in giving accurate definitions and in painting well.
Here might be quoted for comparison other famous definitions of life: "Life is the sum of the functions by which death is resisted.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "definitions" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
