If the story requires no very definite attributes from him, suppose the writer were to assign, arbitrarily, the image of a bird to this character.
Physical space was thought of as having definite metrical attributes.
In each of these worlds, every object has very definite physical attributes, such as position and momentum.
No ancient texts speak of Ligurians in southern Gaul as nations or attribute definite racial characteristics to them.
If one understands the second couplet according to reading (C), then the speaker is apparently endorsing a position that attributes definite natures to things; and this appears flatly inconsistent with the Aristocles passage, on either the metaphysical or the epistemological reading.
Both the context in Diogenes, and the obvious implication of the words themselves, suggest that here too Timon is making the same point: for practical purposes it is both possible and legitimate for Pyrrhonists to let themselves be guided by appearances of things, even while they rigorously refrain from attributing definite characteristics to those things in their real nature.
For example, the famous singlet state of two fermions, such as electrons, attributes to the pair the relation that their spins in any given direction are opposite to each other, but does not attribute a definite spin in any direction to either particle alone.
Because of Corollary V, when Newton wishes to attribute a definite state of motion to the center of mass of the solar system in Book III, he must introduce the hypothesis that "The center of the system of the world is at rest".
The primary realization of understanding is as skilled activity in the domain of the ready-to-hand, but it can be manifested as interpretation, when Dasein explicitly takes something as something (e.g., in cases of disturbance), and also as linguistic assertion, when Dasein uses language to attribute a definite character to an entity as a mere present-at-hand object.
Both were most common in the winter and spring months and were associated with a high risk of disease progression and short-term mortality.In this study one half of respiratory serious adverse events were attributed to definite or suspected acute exacerbations.
