Sentence examples for demonstrative concepts from inspiring English sources

It is a matter of controversy, however, whether having demonstrative concepts does require this (as Kelly 2001 argues), or whether there can be one-off demonstrative concepts.

It holds that we cannot take demonstrative concepts as explanatorily basic.

Demonstrative concepts pick something out without saying anything extra about it.

It is important to see how this is different from the standard view of demonstrative concepts.

Two potential challenges to the appeal to demonstrative concepts have been highlighted.

However, it is again a matter of controversy whether demonstrative concepts are limited in this way.

This proposal has sparked debate about what counts as possessing a demonstrative concept.

Then the subject cannot have an appropriate demonstrative concept, as there is nothing to fix the reference of that concept.

On the standard view, a demonstrative concept is something like an indexical (see the entry on indexicals).

Although the appearance of the demonstrative concept expressible by the phrase '… is colored thus' can exploit the presence of the red27 color chip and account for the person's fine grained experience of the chip, the demonstrative concept's applicability cannot be limited to the presence of this sample.

(He notes (2003: 227) that demonstratives are naturally used to express direct phenomenal concepts (e.g., "I am experiencing this quality"), and that there may be a sense in which a direct phenomenal concept is a "demonstrative" concept, but he avoids such a label at least in part because of the danger of confusing direct phenomenal concepts with demonstrative ones as usually understood).