Sentence examples for something definite for from inspiring English sources

If "human being" means something definite, for example, "two-footed animal" (Aristotle's dummy definition), then, Aristotle concludes, it is impossible that the same thing be a human being and not be a human being.

Her most adamant critics (such as John Hospers) objected to her use of the term symbol, which, in their lexica, must stand for something definite; she took pains to ascribe this more limited usage to the term signal.

But for my father that meant something definite: It signaled discipline, respect, care and responsibility.

The universal is not, according to Cook Wilson, merely identical in all its particulars, but something definite, an 'intrinsic character' (SI, 342n. & 351), for which Cook Wilson reluctantly introduced the technical term 'characteristic being of the universal' (SI, 342).

The pain in his ankle gave him something definite.

Here and there, the picture offers something definite.

"We would expect something definite within the next 24 to 48 hours.

At that point, starting a life with the professor was not something definite or defined.

You consult the theory, and it provides the odds of something definite happening.

Personally, I don't trust the spark or the idea that its presence or lack means something definite.

"Themes are a way of not saying something definite about anything," Waldemar Januszczak wrote in The Sunday Times of London.