Sentence examples for call a definition from inspiring English sources

But the problem Aristotle is trying to solve concerns "the unity of the thing whose account we call a definition" (Z.12, 1037b11).

But it is better to eschew the word 'definition' altogether in this case, because what we should here like to call a definition is really to be regarded as an axiom.

Russell expressed this view somewhat over-dramatically by calling a definition an expression of the author's will.

Unless they have a diagnostic test, they must rely on a checklist of clinical signs and symptoms, what epidemiologists call a case definition.

This sort of definition is sometimes called a causal definition, and is the rough equivalent of a real definition for an attribute.

This may be called a 'constructive definition' ['aufbauende Definition'], but we prefer to call it a 'definition' tout court.

The sequence identifiers and other annotations are relegated into a file with a suffix ".def" or called a processed definition file.

In "The Future of an Illusion" (1927), Freud offers the following definition: "We call a belief an illusion when a wish-fulfillment is a prominent factor in its motivation and in doing so we disregard its relations to reality, just as the illusion itself sets no store by its verification".

It might be called an 'analytic definition' ['zerlegende Definition'] to distinguish it from the first case.

Lingering on a word and then sweeping one's gaze to the right margin calls up a definition.

Although this view does not necessarily imply what Berlin would call a positive notion of freedom, egalitarians often call their own definition a positive one, in order to convey the sense that freedom requires the presence of abilities, or what Amartya Sen has influentially called 'capabilities' (Sen 1985, 1988, 1992).