Sentence examples for applying a term from inspiring English sources
Most Dart customers, however, chose the car for the same workaday qualities that once made it Consumer Reports magazine's top choice among compacts: a laudable mix of value, room, quiet engines, comfortable ride and, applying a term popularized by the Dodge Brothers in the 1920s, "dependability".
The washing suffix (from the word whitewashing) refers to the act of applying a term because it's a hot buzzword without anything real to back it up.
Interestingly, knowing is here characterized as the practical ability (neng) to "describe" (mao) something encountered, probably by applying a term to it.
Other passages in the Mozi suggest that "attaching" refers to applying a term of approval or disapproval to someone in order to praise or reproach him.
What the empiricist denies is that changing your current criteria for applying a term can ever get you closer to the truth about what you meant all along.
In response to such worries, Jackson acknowledges that different speakers' criteria for applying a term may not be perfectly matched, but he argues that there must be significant overall similarity in reference-fixing criteria for everyday practical coordination.
In general, I'm temperamentally moderate and believe in different spheres of justice, to borrow and inappropriately apply a term of Walzer's.
Technically, the ability to correctly apply a term to something (such as by saying, "This is a dog" or by pointing at a dog and declaring, "Dog!") can be understood as an expression of propositional knowledge.
This means that (ME2) fails to support the claim that when S applies a term in a way that is semantically incorrect, then she has done what she ought not do: 'semantically incorrect' and 'ought not' thus come apart.
"It's another example of a government," he said, "which is instinctively opposed to state intervention applying a short-term measure to protect a French firm from going under".
We therefore increased the stringency of our statistical analysis by applying a correction parameter, termed "Allele Frequency Reduction" (AF-reduction).
