Download or read book The Definition of the Thing written by John William Miller and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1983-02 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Definition of the Thing is John William Miller's Harvard dissertation of 1922. In this unusually provocative and original essay, Miller had already worked out a number of the basic contentions of his mature philosophy.