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What (who) is ABSOLUTES - definition
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Absolute (record album); Absolute (disambiguation); Absolutes; Absolute (album)
Absolute
·adj Authoritative; peremptory.
II. Absolute ·adj Pure; unmixed; as, absolute alcohol.
III. Absolute ·adj Positive; clear; certain; not doubtful.
IV. Absolute ·adj Capable of being thought or conceived by itself alone; unconditioned; non-relative.
V. Absolute ·adj Loosed from, or unconnected by, dependence on any other being; self-existent; self-sufficing.
VI. Absolute ·adj Complete in itself; perfect; consummate; faultless; as, absolute perfection; absolute beauty.
VII. Absolute ·noun In a plane, the two imaginary circular points at infinity; in space of three dimensions, the imaginary circle at infinity.
VIII. Absolute ·adj Not immediately dependent on the other parts of the sentence in government; as, the case absolute. ·see Ablative absolute, under Ablative.
IX. Absolute ·adj Viewed apart from modifying influences or without comparison with other objects; actual; real;
- opposed to relative and comparative; as, absolute motion; absolute time or space.
X. Absolute ·adj Loosed from any limitation or condition; uncontrolled; unrestricted; unconditional; as, absolute authority, monarchy, sovereignty, an absolute promise or command; absolute power; an absolute monarch.
absolute
['abs?lu:t]
¦ adjective
1. not qualified or diminished; total.
not subject to any limitation of power: an absolute ruler.
2. not relative or comparative: absolute moral standards.
3. Grammar (of a construction) syntactically independent of the rest of the sentence, as in dinner being over, we left the table.
(of a transitive verb) used without an expressed object (e.g. guns kill).
(of an adjective) used without an expressed noun (e.g. the brave).
4. Law (of a decree) final. See also decree absolute.
¦ noun Philosophy a value or principle regarded as universally valid or able to be viewed without relation to other things.
Derivatives
absoluteness noun
absolutization or absolutisation noun
absolutize or absolutise verb
Origin
ME: from L. absolutus 'freed, unrestricted', from absolvere (see absolve).
Absoluteness
·noun The quality of being absolute; independence of everything extraneous; unlimitedness; absolute power; independent reality; positiveness.
Examples of use of ABSOLUTES
1. Says Byman: "How satisfied are you with progress and not with absolutes?"
2. The question is one of balance and proportionality, not absolutes of constitutional liberty.
3. He believed in absolutes, revelled in conflict and detested the consensual complacency of the middle way.
4. "Absolutes are very hard to find." __ On the Net: James Randi Educational Foundation: http://www.randi.org
5. There are, of course, few absolutes in art appreciation so it‘s easy to agree or disagree.