In cognitive linguistics, their conceptual function has been comprehensively discussed in terms of how they mediate our understanding of the world around us.
Therefore, the vasa vasorum may contribute to vascular remodeling through not only its conventional function as a blood conducting tube, but also its new conceptual function as a stem cell reservoir.
We have seen that there are various sorts of thing a narrow content could be: a description, a conceptual role, a function from contexts to broad contents, a diagonal proposition, or a set of maximal epistemic possibilities.
Within these categories at a micro-level sentence openers were available to clarify what the text contributions were trying to do, and the rhetorical link labels in conceptual mapping have a similar function.
Many ecofeminist philosophers explore the ways these shared conceptual roots function in real life to keep intact unjustified institutions and practices of oppression and domination.
The conceptual model function will serve as a blueprint for further development of required sensors, communication technology, and information processing capabilities.
22, 23 The SF12 estimates an individual's health-related quality of life and functioning across eight conceptual measures (physical functioning, role limitations due to physical health, emotional problems and mental health, bodily pain, general health, vitality, and social functioning).
The questionnaire consists of 36 questions that measure eight conceptual components: physical functioning, physical role limitations, bodily pain, self-reported general health, vitality, social function, emotional role limitations, and mental health.
Furthermore, the ontology includes a new category of functional concepts named meta-functions representing conceptual categories of interdependency between functions.
However, it needs to be kept in mind that this is potentially misleading since, as we saw above, there are conceptual differences between functions and ends.
