"It's a recognized technique".
Regardless of its status as a modal locution, Rosen recognizes that it is a very unsatisfying primitive: the notion of a proposition being true according to PW is an unlikely one to be considered basic and unanalysable.
I recognized an Obligation.
(Ellis likes this locution so much that he reuses it, with only slight variation, twice more in the space of five pages: John "was now publicly recognized as a major player"; "history was calling him to play a major role").
We recognize it in locutions such as "the probability that the die lands 1, given that it lands odd, is 1/3", or "the probability that it will rain tomorrow, given that there are dark clouds in the sky tomorrow morning, is high".
So, the difference between a Verbiage and a locution is that whereas the former is construed by a noun group, the latter is construed by a clause.
Sometime in the not-so-distant past, "to die for," became a populist, foodie locution, an in-the-know way to express extreme pleasure.
This is Krazy Kat by way of Spengler — a distinctly Yiddish locution with a nasty street snarl, which tips De Voto into a defensive kind of despair.
To recognize a Palestinian state?
They recognize a true professional.
The locution "(overall) rational" or "(overall) irrational" presupposes that there are various kinds of rationality, including moral rationality, epistemic rationality, and prudential rationality.[10] The idea that there are various kinds of rationality, or put any way, that one can be under conflicting obligations at a particular time, recognizes that dilemmas are possible.
