Sentences with phrase «definite meaning»

Whether they venerated the biblical text or dismissed it, however, both sides presumed that the text had a fairly definite meaning.

Genetic identity, which has only a relatively definite meaning, involves (1) some «defining characteristic» reappearing in each member of a sequence or family of occasions; (2) direct inheritance by appreciably positive prehensions of this character from previous members.

The name for this body of work likely derived from the idea that each painting seems to be composed of innumerable little images representing an abstract vocabulary without definite meaning.

While it may indeed be possible to take it too far in the other direction, I think you are overestimating the extent that words have definite meanings.

But words have definite meanings.

Hartshorne's program for philosophy is based on his conviction that «logical structure [constitutes] the basic difference between systems,» and that «metaphysical error is exclusively a matter of confusion, inconsistency or lack of definite meaning, rather than of factual mistakes» (CSPM xiv, 69).

Hartshorne believes that it is constituted by requirements of coherence, consistency, definite meaning, clarity, moderation, etc..

Increasingly we wonder whether any text has a definite meaning at all.

The word theory has a definite meaning and applying it to the existence of a supreme being is not correct.

The strange shapes of the inkblots or the indeterminate figures in the drawings present themselves to us in terms of definite meanings, which we unconsciously project on them.

Such a principle is, to use Hartshorne's phrase, a universal correlate of fact.1 A metaphysician, then, seeks to identify and formulate principles which, though inescapable, are nonetheless missed or denied through confusion, inconsistency, or lack of definite meaning.

Yet strangely enough they have a definite meaning for our practice.

Rather the revelatory aspect resides in the specific focal meaning that issues from a special tacit integration of these clues into a specific pattern with a definite meaning.

Can't go with «Gentle Ben», he's showing a definite mean streak lately.

The term bioidentical has a definite meaning and is widely used.

Also, there's a definite mean - spiritedness and a slight element of danger to «Me, Myself & Irene» that the other films, especially «Mary,» wisely avoided.

Some of the terms used have a definite meaning to nutritionists, some are just marketing.

Here's an excerpt: Combining Vanitas motifs, Surrealist elements and fairytale themes, Germany - based painter Paul Pretzer creates images that are largely free of definite meanings.

But also, I think there's a way that an artist could work with signs where the signs never resolve, where the meanings are always ambiguous and inconclusive yet they hold out the promise of a definite meaning.

Replacing the word «Lost» with the «Found» we wish to embrace the idea of interacting with the unknown: the method of the exchange defies the concept of definite meanings and interpretations in artworks.

The court disagreed with the Builder and Developers, finding instead that the legislative history of the FHAA demonstrated that Congress used the term «adaptive design» because it is a term of art within the construction industry with a definite meaning.