Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The quality of being determinable.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Capability of being determined; determinability.
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- noun Capability of being
determined ;determinability .
Etymologies
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Examples
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I HAVE remarked in the beginning of the foregoing letter that there is a twofold condition of determinableness and a twofold condition of determination.
>Letters upon the Aesthetic Education of Man. Letter XXI. 1909
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Thus we only arrive at reality by limitation, at the positive, at a real position, by negation or exclusion; to determination, by the suppression of our free determinableness.
>Letters upon the Aesthetic Education of Man. Letter XIX. 1909
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Just in the same manner, the æsthetic determinableness comes in contact with the mere want of determination in a single point, by both excluding every distinct determined existence, by thus being in all other points nothing and all, and hence by being infinitely different.
>Letters upon the Aesthetic Education of Man. Letter XXI. 1909
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The former is only a want of determinationit is without limits, because it is without reality; but the latter, the æsthetic determinableness, has no limits, because it unites all reality.
>Letters upon the Aesthetic Education of Man. Letter XXI. 1909
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That which, in the previous state of determinableness, was only an empty potency becomes now an active force, and receives contents; but at the same time, as an active force it receives a limit, after having been, as a simple power, unlimited.
>Letters upon the Aesthetic Education of Man. Letter XIX. 1909
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Accordingly the æsthetic constitution is in relation to determinableness what thought is in relation to determination.
>Letters upon the Aesthetic Education of Man. Letter XXI. 1909
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I have remarked in the beginning of the foregoing letter that there is a twofold condition of determinableness and a twofold condition of determination.
The Works of Frederich Schiller Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller 1782
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Accordingly the aesthetic constitution is in relation to determinableness what thought is in relation to determination.
The Works of Frederich Schiller Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller 1782
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The former is only a want of determination -- it is without limits, because it is without reality; but the latter, the aesthetic determinableness, has no limits, because it unites all reality.
The Works of Frederich Schiller Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller 1782
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Just in the same manner the aesthetic determinableness comes in contact with the mere want of determination in a single point, by both excluding every distinct determined existence, by thus being in all other points nothing and all, and hence by being infinitely different.
The Works of Frederich Schiller Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller 1782
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