Sentence examples for datum from inspiring English sources

Dashes should be N-dashes rather than M-dashes or hyphens data takes a singular verb (like agenda), though strictly a plural; no one ever uses "agendum" or "datum" datacentre, dataset dates Our style is: 21 July 2014 (day month year; no commas).

In Latin, datum is a singular noun that pluralises as data.

We imported "data" and use it frequently in English; we use "datum" much less often.

Each use of a datum must be connected to an affiliate link back to the appropriate item or section at Amazon.com: "all uses of this content must serve the principal purpose of driving sales of products and services on the Amazon site," the letter warned, suggesting that Lendle fell foul of the rule.

The orthodox representationalist and the sense-datum theorist have simple accounts of these entailments in terms of the structure of the objects of experiences (apparent structure, for the representationalist; actual structure, for the sense-datum theorist).

Once the concept of a sense-datum has been introduced in this way, it is easy to see that false appearances can be handled by distinguishing between the properties of sense-data we apprehend and the properties of the physical objects which give rise to these sense-data.

It may be felt that in so far as sense-data are objects at all, this is inevitable; but Moore now needs to provide an account of the apparent properties of sense-data and it is not clear how he can do this without going back on the initial motivation for the sense-datum theory by construing these apparent properties as properties of our experiences.