How To Use Definiteness In A Sentence
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Its euphony and indefiniteness were a charm to him.
The Volokh Conspiracy » “We Cannot Ask a Man [Being Considered for the Supreme Court] What He Will Do”
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At the beginning he admired Sophia's "definiteness" and routines and were an influence on his own journey.
Reader reviews of A Patchwork Planet by Anne Tyler.
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The whole of the edict bears the character of precipitation, of excitement, (entrainement,) rather than of deliberate reflection — the extent of the promises, the indefiniteness of the means, of the conditions, and of the time during which the parents might have a right to the succor of the state.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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Its euphony and indefiniteness were a charm to him.
The Volokh Conspiracy » “We Cannot Ask a Man [Being Considered for the Supreme Court] What He Will Do”
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But I prefer to use the word phantasm as hinting the indefiniteness into which the Soul spills itself when it seeks to communicate with Matter, finding no possibility of delimiting it, neither encompassing it nor able to penetrate to any fixed point of it, either of which achievements would be an act of delimitation.
The Six Enneads.
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Definiteness needs to be explicitly encoded by a demonstrative; the demonstrative, therefore, counts as an explicit grounding device.
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Finally, about definiteness marking on direct objects Payne tends to call definiteness "identifiability":
Nipping the PIE ergative *-s theory right in the bud
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The whole of the edict bears the character of precipitation, of excitement, (entrainement,) rather than of deliberate reflection -- the extent of the promises, the indefiniteness of the means, of the conditions, and of the time during which the parents might have a right to the succor of the state.
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 1
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This paper discusses two controversial issues of the English existential definiteness and agreement.
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It is extremely difficult to distinguish in observation between vagueness of the illusion due to feebleness in the after-image depending on faint illumination, dark-colored discs or lack of the desirable difference in luminosity between the sectors (cf.p. 171) and the indefiniteness which is due to broad transition-bands existing between the (relatively) pure-color bands.
Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory.
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What we see, then, is a subtle mix of the fixedness that a posed portrait inevitably generates and a blurred indefiniteness, partly from camera shake and partly from the haze created by bright sunlight or late afternoon shadow.
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indefiniteness" of the Tiger leave and after first claiming "the PGA Tour has not been significantly impacted in a negative way" provided this more realistic assessment.
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He argues that "doctrinal indefiniteness can be a reasonable expression of epistemic modesty, and that even doctrinal entanglement can be justified when it is the only way of preserving, in the sociocultural environment available, a reflectively stable orientation.
Michael Ruse: Religion As Morality: Is This the Way Forward in the Science-Religion Debate?
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The only reply that it is possible is that the indefiniteness is the result of design.
The New Testament Commentary Vol. III: John
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Nor does infinity in the sense of unboundedness coincide with indefiniteness, since indefiniteness is compatible with the existence of a maximum and unboundedness is not.
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A well-posed problem is a problem that can be stated with enough clarity and definiteness that it is guaranteed a solution.
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This nunnation expresses indefiniteness, e.g. "Malikun" = a king, any king.
Arabian nights. English
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His reality perception of indefiniteness as a product of the post-industrial society has its scientific basis as well as theoretic defects.
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Finally, about definiteness marking on direct objects Payne tends to call definiteness 'identifiability': Describing morphosyntax, p.
Nipping the PIE ergative *-s theory right in the bud
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Languages that lack definiteness markers like the Slavonic ones are expected to resort to demonstratives more freely.
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[123] In a free application of Spencer's formula of evolution to modern industry I have not included the quality of "definiteness," which close reflection shows to possess no property which is not included under heterogeneity and cohesiveness.
The Evolution of Modern Capitalism A Study of Machine Production
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A well-posed problem is a problem that can be stated with enough clarity and definiteness that it is guaranteed a solution.
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For definiteness, we assume that in the course of unit time (usually one day), events occur in the following order.
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The lack of definiteness which is at present so general in color nomenclature, is due in large measure to the failure to appreciate the fundamental characteristics on which color differences depend.
A Color Notation A measured color system, based on the three qualities Hue, Value and Chroma
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This nunnation expresses indefiniteness, e.g. “Malikun” = a king, any king.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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But the kind of definiteness and consistency introduced depends upon who introduces them.
Public Opinion
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We speak of these changes with a peremptory kind of definiteness, as if they had covered no more than the space of a few years.
On Compromise
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Breadth of a claim is not to be equated with indefiniteness.
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Finally, about definiteness marking on direct objects Payne tends to call definiteness 'identifiability': Describing morphosyntax, p.
Nipping the PIE ergative *-s theory right in the bud
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There is a psychological definiteness which will be described in a subsequent chapter.
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For definiteness, we based our simulation study on a model appropriate for human populations.
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He stated that he liked the structure they had, such as the definiteness in the policies, and knowing if he violated a rule he would be locked in his room.
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'indefiniteness' and 'general imbecility' of what we had to offer -- all so unworthy a _Bostonian_ audience -- we commenced, and with many interruptions of applause, concluded.
International Miscellany of Literature, Art and Science, Vol. 1, No. 3, Oct. 1, 1850
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Anxiety is endowed with a certain character of indefiniteness and objectlessness; correct usage even changes its name when it has found an object, and in that case speaks instead of fear.
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Had he had the eyes of a man, nearly two yards higher than his own from the deck, and had they been the trained eyes of a man, sailor-man at that, Jerry could have seen the low blur of Ysabel to the north and the blur of Florida to the south, ever taking on definiteness of detail as the Arangi sagged close-hauled, with a good full, port-tacked to the south-east trade.
CHAPTER III
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The diverseness and conflict of the fusion information are managed effectively; meanwhile, the uncertainty, non-integrality and indefiniteness are degraded.
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All men are prone to believe in such marvels; and it is quite possible, as Niebuhr supposes, that some discoveries of the remains of mammoths and other monstrous forms embedded in the crust of the earth, may have given definiteness and prominency to the Chaldaean notions on this subject.
The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 1. (of 7): Chaldaea The History, Geography, And Antiquities Of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, And Sassanian or New Persian Empire; With Maps and Illustrations.
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They illustrate that indefiniteness which is characteristic of Greek mythology, a theology with no central authority, no link on historic time, liable from the first to an unobserved transformation.
Greek Studies: a Series of Essays
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Despite any focus-derailing suppositions, my reference has clearly shown that the Korean nominative case marker, stripped of any nuance of deixis or definiteness, is still etymologically traced back to a demonstrative.
Nipping the PIE ergative *-s theory right in the bud
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Such matters are embedded in a gray sector of controversy and indefiniteness and are likely to remain so for the next decade, at the very least.
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Its euphony and indefiniteness were a charm tohim.
The Volokh Conspiracy » “We Cannot Ask a Man [Being Considered for the Supreme Court] What He Will Do”
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Its euphony and indefiniteness were a charm tohim.
The Volokh Conspiracy » “We Cannot Ask a Man [Being Considered for the Supreme Court] What He Will Do”
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I think the key to definiteness is that the noun is specific to both the reader AND the writer.
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In Rene Descartes′ opinion, object- deduction as the fifth road to wisdom that he found has an undoubted reliability and definiteness.
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Ravitch would hardly disagree with Sizer that there are many acceptable ways for schools and students to meet academic standards, once we know with some definiteness what they are.
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Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement.
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(To the objection that this thesis of indefiniteness is itself an opinion, it may be replied that doxa, ˜opinion™, is regularly used in earlier Greek philosophy, especially in Parmenides and Plato, to refer to those opinions ” misguided opinions, in the view of these authors ” that take on trust a view of the world as conforming more or less to the way it appears in ordinary experience.
Picnic
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But as he watched it grow in definiteness he saw that it was a coral reef smoking in the white Pacific surges.
Chapter 40