Sentence examples for a singular term from inspiring English sources

The problem arises from treating nobody as a singular term, one that must refer to some thing in this case to a mysterious being that does not exist.

Crucially, since the present King of France does not function as a singular term in the analysis, no referent for it is required to make the description or the sentence meaningful.

We study the convergence of a sequence of distributions SH to a singular term S as a parameter H (associated with the support size of SH) shrinks to zero.

So, a singular term is defined via a singular term; a general term via a general term; a sentence via a sentence; and so on.

If this intuition is taken seriously, then a mass noun isn't a singular term.

The expression 'my dog', according to Frege, is a singular term.

Sometimes a variable is used as a singular term to denote a specific, but unspecified (or arbitrary) object.

Now, any sentence that this operator embeds has to be analyzed in Russellian terms if it contains a singular term.

Some theorists, for instance, hold that 'you' is not a singular term that refers to an individual in a context.

The answer will depend on what is required for a mathematical singular term to have a semantic value.

The answer is that a definite description, under Russell's theory, is not a genuine singular term; it is not even a meaningful unit.