I point at Jones and say, "The murderer of Smith is insane", thereby communicating the thought that Jones is insane (whether or not Jones is the actual murderer).
For example, on seeing murder victim Smith's badly mutilated corpse, Detective Brown might say "The murderer of Smith is insane" thereby communicating the thought that some unique individual murdered Smith and that whoever that individual is, he/she is insane.
Plausibly, learning English requires learning that the form of words "it's raining" is properly used to communicate the thought that it's raining.
Both painting which Herder is thus far, like Lessing, using as a generic term for the visual arts comprising both painting proper and sculpture and music use natural signs, that is, signs that communicate the thought of their objects to us by means of resemblance between their own fundamental properties and the fundamental properties of their objects.
Paralyzed from the neck down, able to communicate the thoughts of an active mind only by blinking, dependent on caregivers, he had, as many columnists concluded, become a surprisingly loud voice in favor of what some people call the right to die.
Mr Corman is spokesman for a grassroots group known as I Am The Cavalry (IATC) that seeks to communicate the thoughts and fears of many professional security testers to the wider world.
At five years old, inability to communicate the thoughts in his head drove him into meltdowns that included kicking doors, walls, floors and me.
Not all survive the transmission, but each one that does fulfills literature's most necessary task: communicating the writer's thoughts about the world we live in.
The event kicked off and along with nine other Twitter ambassadors and all participating around the nation, we got busy communicating the key moments and thoughts coming from the stage.
They've been communicating that thought, privately, to the White House.
Further down the road, the concept could lead to a better way to deliver therapeutic stimulation to address neurodegenerative diseases, or a stable brain-computer interface that might help disabled people do things their condition usually wouldn't allow them to do, like move prosthetic limbs or communicate (see "The Thought Experiment").
