Sentence examples for appeals to the function from inspiring English sources
One attempt to distinguish constructivism from both realism and anti-realism appeals to the function of concepts (Korsgaard 2003).
Another proposal shuns the metaphysical questions concerning the nature of meaning and appeals to the function of meaning statements in our practices (Lance & O'Leary Hawthorne 1997).
Finally, it also provided some attempts to address this problem, such as an appeal to the function a thing might have.
In determining what eudaimonia consists in, Aristotle makes a crucial appeal to the human function (ergon), and thus to his overarching teleological framework.
Their exploration of the rhetorical functions appeals to the concepts rather than to the values invoked by the expressions of lexical metaphors.
The effects of saturation state and temperature on gross shell dissolution rate were modeled with an exponential asymptotic function (y="B0 B2·eB1Ω) that appeals to the general Arrhenius-derived rate equation for mineral dissolution [r="(C·e-Ea/RT)(1 − Ω n].
We find that the fitness function could approach convergence after 20 iterations, which appeals to the demand of real time.
Dretske also appealed to the notion of function in an attempt to distinguish content determining causes from adventitious non-content determining causes.
This argument is that, because functions are selected effects, any appeal to representational functions must be an appeal to the effects of representations and not their causes (Millikan (1989b, 85), Papineau (1998, 3)).
The case was appealed to the US Federal Circuit Court, which handles all patent appeals in the United States.
