The phrase "a singular term in" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing a specific term or concept within a particular context or field of study.
Example: "In linguistics, a singular term in a sentence refers to a noun that denotes a single entity."
Alternatives: "a specific term in" or "an individual term in".
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.
This allows us to use the word 'Seine' as if it were a singular term in accordance with the customary modes of speech.
While the case is not incontrovertible, many have taken the problems presented above to show that the only semantically relevant value of a singular term in the scope of a propositional attitude verb is its reference.
It is difficult to accommodate the use of such terms with a Fregean theory that requires that the mode of presentation is the semantic value of a singular term in a propositional attitude clause.
It turns out that Kant's view that "exists" is not a "real" predicate and Frege's view, that "exists" is not a predicate of individuals (i.e., a predicate that yields a well-formed sentence if one puts a singular term in front of it), has to be abandoned if one is to accept the claim that there are nonexistent objects.
This may happen, for example, if the objects that satisfy the open formula $A$ are not denoted by any singular term in the language.
The λ-notation has the advantage of clearly revealing that the variable x is bound by the term-forming operator λ, which takes a predicate φ and yields a term λx φx (which in some logics is a singular term that can occur in the subject position of a sentence, while in other logics is a complex predicative expression).
Although food law is used in a singular term, it is recognised that in many countries more than one law may exist which contains provisions for ensuring safe and quality food production.
Some theorists, for instance, hold that 'you' is not a singular term that refers to an individual in a context.
If, instead of using the language of second-order logic, one were to have a two-sorted first-order logic in which properties are one of the sorts and in which there are singular terms t denoting properties, then # could be used as a function symbol like d, so that #t could be a singular term denoting the number of things falling under the concept denoted by t.
The study of the problem of periodic solutions to scalar equations with a singularity began with work of Forbat and Huaux [1, 2], where the singular term in the equations models the restoring force caused by a compressed perfect gas (see [3 6] and the references therein).
