Sentence examples for a certain description and from inspiring English sources

(Wilkes, 1988, p. 29) This implies, for example, that "a full psychophysiological account of the processes of human perception must at some stage link up with part at least of linguistic ability; for we typically see things under a certain description, and that description may be a very sophisticated one".

Cilliers [ 23] nuances the ideal by pointing at the notion of power: "The argument from complexity claims that a single story, or in the words of Lyotard, a 'coherent meta-narrative' cannot describe any social system fully…The reason why a certain description is acceptable has to do less with rationality and more with power.

Desire and its varieties are striving itself, under a certain description.

(That is, if the original date required the interaction of n primes of a certain description, these dates have the same property but require the interaction of only n-1 primes of that description).

A theorem makes the claim that all terms of a certain description have a specified property; a problem seeks the construction of a term that is to have a specified property.

Any concrete thing one selects to exemplify the notion of substance turns out in practice to answer a certain description; this means in effect that it cannot be spoken of apart from its attributes.

Similarly, "I am breaking a egg because I'm trying to make an omelet," the explanans (the trying) is itself an action, under a certain description, that incorporates the breaking of the egg.

Thus, if an act of reference-fixing is to be successful, the reference-fixer must think of the referent-to-be under a certain description — one that that object or individual actually satisfies.

In the relevant sense, consent transactions have a distinct structure: agent A consents to B's φ­-ing on A, under a certain description of φ­-ing, whether or not the offer was initiated by B. For example, a man may consent to a physician's touching the man's testicles as part of a testicular cancer exam (compare Kleinig 2010, 6 7).

If there were a certain description of a cause of death, the hospital would have been culpable.

But suppose that the child is predicting not strings of words, simpliciter, but rather strings of words under a certain syntactic description (or, perhaps more plausibly, quasi-syntactic description — the categories employed need not be the same as those employed in adult grammars).[14] This would enable her to make much better use of non-occurrence as negative evidence.