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  • 121manifest image — Term introduced by Sellars in papers collected in his Science, Perception, and Reality (1963), for the common way of thinking of oneself in the world, as a perceiving person and agent, amongst other similar persons inhabiting a single space of… …

    Philosophy dictionary

  • 122manifest destiny — noun Usage: often capitalized M&D Date: 1845 a future event accepted as inevitable < in the mid 19th century expansion to the Pacific was regarded as the Manifest Destiny of the United States >; broadly an ostensibly benevolent or necessary&#8230; …

    New Collegiate Dictionary

  • 123Manifest, das — Das Manifếst, des es, plur. die e, aus dem Latein. eine Schrift, worin ein Fürst oder unabhängiger Staat die Welt von seinen öffentlichen Handlungen belehret …

    Grammatisch-kritisches Wörterbuch der Hochdeutschen Mundart

  • 124MANIFEST DESTINY —    This term, which may have originated with John L. O’Sullivan’s 1839 treatise Manifest Destiny, refers to a concept that is a basic subtext of all Westerns from the classic and silent eras: that because the United States was blessed and chosen&#8230; …

    Westerns in Cinema

  • 125manifest necessity — Doctrine of manifest necessity which will authorize granting of mistrial in criminal case, and preclude defendant from successfully raising plea of former jeopardy, contemplates a sudden and overwhelming emergency beyond control of court and&#8230; …

    Black's law dictionary

  • 126manifest weight of evidence — The word manifest , in rule that appellate court cannot substitute its opinion for that of trial court as to facts unless trial court s finding is manifestly against the weight of the evidence, means unmistakable, clear, plain, or indisputable,&#8230; …

    Black's law dictionary

  • 127manifest necessity — Doctrine of manifest necessity which will authorize granting of mistrial in criminal case, and preclude defendant from successfully raising plea of former jeopardy, contemplates a sudden and overwhelming emergency beyond control of court and&#8230; …

    Black's law dictionary

  • 128manifest weight of evidence — The word manifest , in rule that appellate court cannot substitute its opinion for that of trial court as to facts unless trial court s finding is manifestly against the weight of the evidence, means unmistakable, clear, plain, or indisputable,&#8230; …

    Black's law dictionary