The phrase "application of a term" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing how a specific term is utilized or interpreted in a particular context or field.
Example: "The application of a term like 'sustainability' varies significantly across different industries."
Alternatives: "use of a term" or "interpretation of a term".
Distribution, also called Distribution Of Terms, in syllogistics, the application of a term of a proposition to the entire class that the term denotes.
Logic, for example, is a set of practices and therefore a language, perfectly in order as it stands; what counts in logic as a correct application of a term or a permissible inference, therefore, depends only on what logicians do.
For the Mohists, an assertion is the application of a term to something.
There is a limited range, albeit rather wide, of appropriate standards for the application of a term.
A handy tool in the search for precise definitions is the specification of necessary and/or sufficient conditions for the application of a term, the use of a concept, or the occurrence of some phenomenon or event.
It is just one instance of the general truth that standards for the application of a term vary within a wide but non-arbitrary range as determined by various features of the conversational context.
First, past applications of a term need not yield necessary and sufficient criteria for applying it: 'marriage' (like 'citizen') may be extended to new cases without thereby changing its meaning (Mercier 2001).
Past applications of a term need not yield necessary and sufficient criteria for applying it: 'marriage', like 'citizen', may be extended to new cases without thereby changing its meaning (Mercier 2001).
What makes the application of a general term rigid is that any item to which the term applies, in any possible world, is part of the extension of that term in all worlds in which it exists (Cook 1980; Devitt forthcoming; Devitt and Sterelny 1999, pp. 85 6).
More playful is the application of a medical term from Dr. Gerald Zeitlin, of Maine: "Clumsy as it is, I propose economic detumescence to describe the excesses in the economy and their subsequent deflation".
In this paper, we propose estimation of the domain integral through application of a method termed sequential importance sampling (SIS).
