To define is to limit, to set the bounds to mark out. In common parlance it is usual to say that we define things or ideas when we use words to describe them. But actually things are already defined by the fact of their existence. What we really define when we use words to describe or indicate things is to set the limits to application of the words or terms. We don’t define things & events. We set the limits to application of terms. A ‘word definition’ is ‘an indication of a word’s limit of application’.
A sculptor may actually define the form of a statue with a chisel, but when we use words to draw attention to a form, we do so only because we have already defined the limit of application of those words. The word ‘triangle’ is limited in its application to three-sided figures. The word ‘circle’ is limited in application to a figure described by a line all parts of which are equidistant from a centreThe term Centre is derived from a Latin root centrum, and from the Greek kentron, 'point, prickle, spike, an ox-goad. The 'ox-goad' idea is used in the sense of an 'incentive to action'. The root kenteo, 'prick, goad, wound' is cognate with cethr, 'nail'; and appears in the Old High...; and so on. Basic geometrical forms are used to give an approximate idea of all kinds of things. We talk about round or square faces, conical hats, spherical door knobs, triangular trowels, etc.
We cannot define what has no boundaries. Thus as sentienceSentience is a property of the Infinite Eternal Absolute. Sentience, Awareness, Consciousness, Feeling, Sensation; all these words refer to that whereby we know what we know. It is significant and important that we cannot indicate what we mean by one of these words without appealing to that in us which... or consciousnessThat within which people, things, events and relationships appear. The word “consciousness” shall be used wherever the contents of a zone of sentience are analysed into discrete forms, kept separate from each other, and yet related by their similarities and dissimilarities. We can hold together all circumscribed forms, similar in... is not a something round which we can draw a line, we cannot define consciousnessThat within which people, things, events and relationships appear. The word “consciousness” shall be used wherever the contents of a zone of sentience are analysed into discrete forms, kept separate from each other, and yet related by their similarities and dissimilarities. We can hold together all circumscribed forms, similar in... as such. But when any formal content or object appears in consciousnessThat within which people, things, events and relationships appear. The word “consciousness” shall be used wherever the contents of a zone of sentience are analysed into discrete forms, kept separate from each other, and yet related by their similarities and dissimilarities. We can hold together all circumscribed forms, similar in... then we can define this content or object. We define, not consciousnessThat within which people, things, events and relationships appear. The word “consciousness” shall be used wherever the contents of a zone of sentience are analysed into discrete forms, kept separate from each other, and yet related by their similarities and dissimilarities. We can hold together all circumscribed forms, similar in..., but its content or object, by applying words the meanings of which we have already fixed.
Where there is no defined object in sentienceSentience is a property of the Infinite Eternal Absolute. Sentience, Awareness, Consciousness, Feeling, Sensation; all these words refer to that whereby we know what we know. It is significant and important that we cannot indicate what we mean by one of these words without appealing to that in us which..., although sentienceSentience is a property of the Infinite Eternal Absolute. Sentience, Awareness, Consciousness, Feeling, Sensation; all these words refer to that whereby we know what we know. It is significant and important that we cannot indicate what we mean by one of these words without appealing to that in us which... is that which feels or knows, yet what it feels or knows is not an objective matter of TruthTruth is the ‘form’ aspect of infinite reality, how Reality presents itself to that faculty in us which sees the form or shape of things and events. This faculty is what we call the Intellect or Higher Reason. (The Lower Reason is what is called ‘Common Sense’, derived from sense.... This is why we have difficulty in accepting a vague undefined feeling as ‘true’. A thing or idea is ‘true’ only insofar as it is clearly defined.
See also ‘Truth’