become definite
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“The idea is that the past history of the universe has become definite when someone or people now are observing things about the past universe.”
From Salon • Jan. 17, 2025
The idea was long pondered and circuitously approached, but it will be seen from one of the following letters that it had become definite in 1903.
From The Letters of Henry James (volume I) by James, Henry
Yet in proportion as such conceptions become definite and objective in the mind, they approach aesthetic values, and the use of aesthetic epithets in describing them becomes more constant and literal.
From The Sense of Beauty Being the Outlines of Aesthetic Theory by Santayana, George
The labour thinker has to become definite in his demands and clearer upon the give and take that will be necessary before they can be satisfied.
From An Englishman Looks at the World by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
Problems become definite, and suggested explanations significant by a certain alternation between a wide and somewhat loose soaking in of relevant facts and a minutely accurate study of a few selected facts.
From How We Think by Dewey, John
