The supposed "real" table underlying its appearances is, in any case, not itself perceived, but inferred, and the question whether such-and-such a particular is an "aspect" of this table is only to be settled by the connection of the particular in question with the one or more particulars by which the table is defined. That is to say, even if we assume a "real" table, the particulars which are its aspects have to be collected together by their relations to each other, not to it, since it is merely inferred from them.
(2) According to the system of correlated particulars in different places to which they belong, such system being defined as a physical object.
She might be
defined, I reflected, as The Woman Who Is Worthy Of Us; but the improbability which every healthily conceited young man must feel of ever finding such a one made the definition seem a little unserviceable.
Though indeed some persons may have this further [1276a] doubt, whether a citizen can be a citizen when he is illegally made; as if an illegal citizen, and one who is no citizen at all, were in the same predicament: but since we see some persons govern unjustly, whom yet we admit to govern, though not justly, and the definition of a citizen is one who exercises certain offices, for such a one we have
defined a citizen to be, it is evident, that a citizen illegally created yet continues to be a citizen, but whether justly or unjustly so belongs to the former inquiry.
Vronsky's life was particularly happy in that he had a code of principles, which
defined with unfailing certitude what he ought and what he ought not to do.
A light snow had fallen, obliterating the path, but making the young man's trail conspicuous; each footprint was plainly
defined. After going a little more than half-way--perhaps seventy-five yards--the father, who was in advance, halted, and elevating his lantern stood peering intently into the darkness ahead.
The meaning of the term, as
defined in the codes of the several States, would be as impracticable as the former would be a dishonorable and illegitimate guide.
Then, again, in mountainous countries where the traveller is continually girdled by amphitheatrical heights; here and there from some lucky point of view you will catch passing glimpses of the profiles of whales
defined along the undulating ridges.
Why is not all nature in confusion instead of the species being, as we see them, well
defined?
An action which is one and continuous in the sense above
defined, I call Simple, when the change of fortune takes place without Reversal of the Situation and without Recognition.
Words beginning with X are Grecian and will not be
defined in this standard English dictionary.
It had its unwritten laws, and they were as clearly
defined and as strict as any that could be found among the printed statues of the land.