It is not without reason that i insist on the fact that it is this indefinite expression of the two parties which concludes the act of betrothal.
They say, however, that this is but the same horse with a different bridle because the phrase 'below cost' is itself a vague and indefinite expression in business.
In order to derive these logical forms, we have to assume not only that an indefinite expression buried in a subordinate position ends up having wide scope, but also that it acquires universal force in the process.
In much the way that 'an individual or object of some kind' naturally serves as an indefinite generic expression for the ontic category of any possible kind of individual or object, so in McKay's view, 'some stuff of some kind' is appropriate to serve as an indefinite expression for this 'novel' ontic category of (any kind of) stuff.
So the indefinite expressions "a farmer" and "a donkey" prompt the introduction of two new discourse referents, x and y, and contribute the information that x is a farmer and y a donkey, while the verb contributes the information that the former chased the latter.
In this vein, one widely held view, due to Kamp (1981) and Heim (1982), is that we could regard indefinite descriptions as expressions containing free variables which are bound by adverbs of quantification (in the sense of Lewis (1975)) interpreted as existentially quantified by the model theory, or perhaps bound by implicit existential closure operators (Diesing 1992).
In the LISP language, all data are in the form of symbolic expressions usually referred to as S-expressions, of indefinite length, and which have a branching tree-type of structure, so that significant subexpressions can be readily isolated.
As a matter of fact, β2-ARs expression is still indefinite, contrarily to the β1-AR subtype in different model of heart failure.
While this tells against referential analysis of indefinites, it opens a can of worms for the other approaches as well; for example, if indefinite descriptions are ordinary quantified expressions, then why do they have such extraordinary island-escaping properties (or at least appear to)?
(Of course some complex expressions, and in particular descriptions, definite and indefinite, together with names or other linguistic expressions that abbreviate or in some other way do duty for descriptions, do have descriptive senses and references).
GBM malignancy is driven in part by a population of GBM stem-like cells (GSCs) that exhibit indefinite self-renewal capacity, multipotent differentiation, expression of neural stem cell markers, and resistance to conventional treatments.
