Defined

Famous quotes containing the word defined:

    “We have defined a story as a narrative of events arranged in their time-sequence. A plot is also a narrative of events, the emphasis falling on causality. “The king died and then the queen died” is a story. “The king died, and then the queen died of grief” is a plot. The time sequence is preserved, but the sense of causality overshadows it.”
    —E.M. (Edward Morgan)

    “For a large class of cases—though not for all—in which we employ the word “meaning” it can be defined thus: the meaning of a word is its use in the language.”
    —Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951)

    “Now defined as art, the totem has lost cult, taboo, and custom.”
    —Mason Cooley (b. 1927)