In the supposed depths of this dialogue the Neo-Platonists found hidden meanings and connections with the Jewish and Christian Scriptures, and out of them they elicited doctrines quite at variance with the spirit of Plato.
He attributes new meanings to the words of Parmenides and Heracleitus; but at times the old Eleatic philosophy appears to go beyond him; then the world of phenomena disappears, but the doctrine of ideas is also reduced to nothingness.
It may be that this man could discover hidden meanings in Margaret's words--meanings that are utterly dark to me.
Not unnaturally, in times when the earth was thought to be a Square the Cube had emblematical meanings it could hardly have for us.
For Masons, however, the white gloves and apron had meanings hardly guessed by others, and their symbolism remains to this day with its simple and eloquent appeal.
It is not a faith to be taken lightly, but deeply and in the quiet of the soul, if so that we may grow into its high meanings for ourselves, as life grows or declines.
In the same way, some of the emblems in our Lodges are veiled, or else wear meanings invented after the fact, in lieu of deeper meanings hidden, or but dimly discerned.
By nature an Idealist, and living in a world of radiant mystery, it was inevitable that man should attach moral and spiritual meanings to the tools, laws, and materials of building.
Having revealed so much, mathematics came to wear mystical meanings in a way quite alien to our prosaic habit of thinking--faith in our day having betaken itself to other symbols.
When he finds good in every faith that helps any man to lay hold of divine things and sees majestic meanings in life, whatever the name of that faith may be.
Life leads, if we follow its meanings and think in the drift of its deeper conclusions, to one God as the ground of the world, and upon that ground Masonry lays her corner-stone.
That shows that the SOUND of the words is correct--it interprets the meanings with truth and with exactness; and so the ear is informed, and through the ear, the heart.
But mainly, think of the exasperation of never knowing which of these meanings the speaker is trying to convey.
Some of them explained his music and found philosophicmeanings in it which simply astounded him.
Implacably she read new meanings into this and that detail of her mother's behavior in the past.
This, naturally, leads to the question: What are the meanings of these names?
In connection with these two meanings of the term 'how,' we shall have to consider the distinction between the synthetic method employed in the Critique and the analytic method employed in the Prolegomena.
In the next paragraph Kant emphasises the distinction between the empirical and the transcendental meanings of the term appearance.
Kant is culpably careless in failing to distinguish those two very different meanings of the phrase 'given manifold.
Further meanings could also be enumerated but can be formulated by the reader for himself in the light of the ambiguities just noted.
This curious and ingenious classification of the various meanings of the term 'nothing' is chiefly of interest through its first division: "empty conception without object, ens rationis.
If there is no awareness of awareness, but only of meaningsall of which are objective, there can be no consciousness of the generative, synthetic processes that constitute consciousness on its subjective side.
Though Kant avows the intention of adapting the term Idea freely to the needs of his more Critical standpoint, all these considerations contribute to the rich and varied meanings in which he employs it.
All these variedmeanings contribute to the ambiguity of the title of the Critique.
The two meanings have come to be connected largely owing to the fact that the internally impossible is impossible in every respect.
But first we must briefly consider the various meanings which Kant at different periods assigned to the term idealism.
Reflect upon them, and the meanings of the Holy Books will become clear as the sun at midday.
In the Kitáb-i-Íqán He has given expositions of the meanings of the Gospel and other heavenly Books.
They envelop their meanings in secret statements and insinuations.
These interpretations and statements are due to a misunderstanding of the meanings of the Bible.
The essential oneness of Father, Son and Spirit has many meanings and constitutes the foundation of Christianity.
If we are not endowed with perfect reason, how can we comprehend the meanings of the Word of God?
All the words of the prophets were fulfilled, but because the Jews held tenaciously to hereditary interpretations, they did not understand the inner meanings of the Holy Bible; therefore, they denied Jesus Christ, the Messiah.
Be not satisfied with words, but seek to understand the spiritual meanings hidden in the heart of the words.
The play seems a trifle outmoded to-day, not because its main problem will ever grow stale, but because of the many and conflicting meanings read into it by apostles of feminine supremacy.
Many meanings might easily be suggested in this; but I see no evidence for the adoption of any distinct one.
For their essential function is after all to be instruments for the conveying of actual meaning, and actual meanings are always more or less new (cf.
He will admit, of course, the familiar arguments for a certain stability of meanings which have come down from the days of Plato, but he will suggest that a relative fixity of terms is quite sufficient to content them.
They could in consequence be argued from with as much assurance as debaters could assume the recognized meanings of words.
In science, on the other hand, the assumption that we know what meanings our terms can convey is not made as a matter of course.
How much better you are tuned to the meanings of nature than I?
Time had compressed the freshness of his cheek Into a narrow circle of deep red, But had not tamed his eye; that under brows, Shaggy and grey, had meanings which it brought From years of youth.
Why, I will engage to pick out as many meanings in each as there are plums in a pudding.
The only thing common to these various meanings is an underlying implication that an idea is a purely subjective item in human consciousness, without any assured correspondence to anything outside.
But none of these meanings fit the case of religion.
So long as we keep to these plain meanings of "growth" there can be no confusion.
His power of handling masses of details and facts, of showing their inner meanings and the principles underlying them, and of making them intelligible, was very great; and very few men of his time had it in equal measure.
And by changing the order of the words in a sentence we express all the infinite variety of ideas and meanings that the books of the world hold.
But what different meanings the two writers aim to convey: Tyndall is thinking of the fact that a living body is constantly taking up new material on the one side and dropping dead or outworn material on the other.
Pim means "mouths" and is employed figuratively for "edges," but neither of those meaningsfits the passage.
Delitzsch has been able to gain in this way a vocabulary of about 165 Hittite words, the meanings of most of which are known, and to ascertain some facts about the grammar of Hittite.
This brought new meanings into their love, new meanings into his life; he would clench his hands and vow afresh his battle with the world.
Especially had he read the Civil War; and now he was planning a book that should hold the War, and all the meanings of the War, as a wine-cup holds the rich flavors and aromas of the grape.
New aspects of the thing kept coming to him--new glimpses into meanings yet untold.
They spoke a new language, full of fire and color; they read new meaningsin each other's eyes.
We seek for word-meanings in the classical tongue of Greece, but they come up tinged with no colour of its graceful myths.
There are, however, two other meanings which might intermix in the following names; the one is that suggested by Baxter, viz.
Separating the two meanings as well as I can, I bring in the following here.
According to this classification, the great majority of the glyphs whose meanings have been determined fall into the first group, and those whose meanings are still unknown into the second.
Passing over F2 G2, the meanings of which are unknown, we reach in F3 an inverted Ahau with the coefficient 5 above it.
It must be remembered, however, that all of the above glyphs have meanings quite independent of their phonetic values, that primarily their function was to convey ideas, and that only secondarily were they used in their phonetic senses.
Special conditions presented by glyphs whose meanings are unknown may govern such cases.
People laugh at these atrocious songs, and at the atrocious meanings conveyed in many of the catch-lines; they suit the trade of some who are regular frequenters of these halls.
She delighted to hear the unstinted praise which her grandfather bestowed upon Felix in his absence, and she fed upon the words, secretly repeating them to herself again and again, and finding new meanings for them.
With the majority such an opinion is shelved with all those trite aphorisms which require some catastrophe to bring their tremendous meanings thoroughly home.
The cabala of this erotic philosophy seemed to consist of the subtlest meanings expressed in misleading ways.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "meanings" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
