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
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
And indeed that thought had barely become definite in his mind, when she turned again, and, holding out her hand, came to him with a smile.
From The Truants by Mason, A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley)
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
To such a man the world tends to become definite, finite, obvious; common objects rouse no questions, and unfamiliar possibilities are contemptuously rejected.
From The Problems of Philosophy by Russell, Bertrand
