Everett's most explosive claim, however, was that Pirahã displays no evidence of recursion, a linguistic operation that consists of inserting one phrase inside another of the same type, as when a speaker combines discrete thoughts ("the man is walking down the street," "the man is wearing a top hat") into a single sentence ("The man who is wearing a top hat is walking down the street").
Content from the first transcript was parsed into elements capturing discrete thoughts or concepts, with codes formulated for each.
This means that I meet with them every now and again to offer some thoughts on a discrete problem, or I make an introduction or two.
Each category captured a discrete element of participants' reported thoughts, feelings, behaviours or experiences.
In his rejection of morality as a discrete and separable domain of human thought, or "a peculiar institution," as he called it, Williams resembled the 19th-century German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, someone he said he wished he could quote every twenty minutes.
An example of this is the language of thought hypothesis, which attributes a discrete, combinatorial syntax and other linguistic properties to these mental phenomena.
Because each is like a discrete galaxy.
Each rack was a discrete planet.
Contaminated, uncontaminated, that's a discrete consideration.
The device behaves as a discrete PBS.
They had a discrete, salutary flatness.
