Sentence examples for as ordinary language from inspiring English sources

Thus, metaphorical language develops continuously in complexity just as ordinary language does.

Their work gave rise to a school known as ordinary language philosophy, whose most influential member was J.L. Austin (1911 60).

Austin believed that linguistic analysis could provide many solutions to philosophical riddles, but he disapproved of the language of formal logic, believing it contrived and inadequate and often not as complex and subtle as ordinary language.

Similarly, Max Born says: "Invariants are the concepts of which science speaks in the same way as ordinary language speaks of 'things', and which it provides with names as if they were ordinary things" (1953, 149), and: "The feature which suggests reality is always some kind of invariance of a structure independent of the aspect, the projection" (149).

Gilbert Ryle, Moore's successor as editor of a leading journal, Mind, was among the most prominent of those analysts who were regarded as using ordinary language as a philosophical tool.

Sometimes known as an "ordinary language", sometimes as an "analytic" philosopher, Ryle even when mentioned in the same breath as Wittgenstein and his followers is considered to be on a different, somewhat idiosyncratic (and difficult to characterise), philosophical track.

Ryle is often described as an ordinary language philosopher or as recommending that philosophy should concern itself with the ordinary use of language.

As an ordinary language philosopher, Austin grounds his notion of fact more in linguistic usage than in an articulated metaphysics, but he defends his use of fact-talk in Austin (1961b).

The term "privacy" is used frequently in ordinary language as well as in philosophical, political and legal discussions, yet there is no single definition or analysis or meaning of the term.

Let ℒ be a modal language whose names and predicates represent those in some fragment of ordinary language (as in our examples (5) and (6) above).

Worse, if the criterion is to have application to the actual ontological debates among philosophers, it will have to apply to theories couched within ordinary language as well.