Sentence examples for canonical language from inspiring English sources

Pāli's use as a Buddhist canonical language came about because the Buddha opposed the use of Sanskrit, a learned language, as a vehicle for his teachings and encouraged his followers to use vernacular dialects.

The Communion again, in 2016, imposed sanctions on the ECUSA following the latter's decision at its 78th General Convention the previous year to abandon canonical language defining marriage as a union between a man and a woman and to adopt two new rites of marriage that could be used by both same-sex and opposite-sex couples.

Still, finding a canonical language seems to many to be a pipe dream, at least if we want to analyze the "logical probability" of any argument of real interest — either in science, or in everyday life.

On the contrary, mental language for Ockham is a kind of lean, stripped down, "canonical" language with no frills or inessentials, a little like the "ideal languages" postulated by logical atomists in the first part of the twentieth century.

More telling is the concern that simplicity is language-relative, and indeed that any theory can be given the simplest specification possible: simply abbreviate it as T! Lewis replies that a theory's simplicity must be judged according to its specification in a canonical language, in which all of the predicates correspond to natural properties.

In children receiving therapy, we expect gains to be reflected in cortical thickness change in canonical language areas and sensory-motor regions (i.e., perisylvian and Rolandic cortices).

Although canonical language-related regions were not affected, we caution against the interpretation that such delay does not have a long-lasting neurobiological impact.

Since power issue may have limited the ability to detect small-effect sizes in these canonical language-related areas, we additionally performed ROI analyses on 13 canonical language-related ROIs defined from functional neuroimaging studies (http://web.mit.edu/evelina9/www/funcloc/funcloc_parcels.html) (Fedorenko et al. 2010).

From these findings, perhaps the most surprising is that canonical language-related structures (e.g., Broca's and Wernicke's areas, other left-lateralized frontal, temporal, and inferior parietal regions) were not associated with a history of language delay.

For example, perhaps the theory should first be translated into a canonical formal language, such as the language of first-order predicate logic, where truth conditions, and thus ontological commitments, are easier to specify.

The students in Mills's class used simple drag-and-drop balloon commands to make their Spheros move, but by swiping on a button they could also see some of the raw computer syntax that lay behind the commands in Oval, a subset of the canonical programming language C. The balloon command "Set heading 178 degrees" reveals itself to be "controlSystemTargetYaw = 178" in Oval.