"Complemental" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... them. When they add themselves to being, they partly redetermine the existent, so that reality as a whole appears incompletely definable unless ideas also are kept account of. This pragmatist doctrine, exhibiting our ideas as complemental factors of reality, throws open (since our ideas are instigators of our action) a wide window upon human action, as well as a wide license to originality in thought. But few things could be sillier than to ignore the prior epistemological ...
— The Meaning of Truth • William James
... be in kind to be truly complemental. Through the sense of their reciprocal timidity they divine that they ...
— Between The Dark And The Daylight • William Dean Howells
... Complemental: applied to sexed forms in the Termitidae, capable of reproduction, but which do not reach the winged stage; the females are less fertile than the forms that become winged and several may be used in one nest to replace a ...
— Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology • John. B. Smith
... mated, their pettinesses and selfishnesses peculiarly complemental. In any case, they ...
— We Can't Have Everything • Rupert Hughes
... accumulating facts and speculating on the subject of variation without having worked out my due share of species." (II. p. 31.) The eight or nine years of labour, which resulted in a monograph of first-rate importance in systematic zoology (to say nothing of such novel points as the discovery of complemental males), left Darwin no room to reproach himself on this score, and few will share his "doubt whether the work was worth the consumption of so ...
— Darwiniana • Thomas Henry Huxley |
