Sentence examples for demonstrative that refers from inspiring English sources

Davidson's idea is that 'that' in (16) functions as a demonstrative that refers to the utterance of the sentence that follows.

What's required, argues Campbell, is a conception of experience as something less than conceptual representation of the object of experience, but which nonetheless has the resources to explain how experience of an object can provide one with a form of knowledge of the semantic value of a demonstrative that refers to it.

Some have argued that a genuine perception of the world is a perceptual state with an intentional content containing demonstrative elements that refer to the items perceived.

One route to this view proceeds through the claims that a veridical perception of the world is a perceptual state with an intentional content containing demonstrative elements that refer to the mind-independent items in the environment that are perceived, and that truth-evaluable intentional contents with demonstrative elements that successfully refer are object-dependent.

(b) If the nature of conscious experience does have such an explanatory role to play, whether it is the one that Campbell identifies i.e., that of causing and justifying the use we make of demonstrative terms that refer to the mind-independent objects we perceive.

So an utterance of (16) is really an utterance of two sentences, one with a demonstrative that then refers to the utterance that follows.

This confrontation with, this awareness of, the mind-independent object referred to is what provides one with the relevant form of knowledge of the semantic value of the demonstrative that allows experience to play its explanatory role.

Furthermore, according to Campbell, the knowledge of the semantic value of the demonstrative that such conscious experience provides us with, justifies and causes the pattern of use we make of that demonstrative in our reasoning.

One prima facie problem for demonstration-theories is that demonstratives sometimes refer in contexts in which the speaker does not produce a pointing gesture.

'This water', on a demonstrative occasion, refers, but, "my contention is that this water, unlike this or that drop, is not a particular object" (1972, p. 4).

Marga Reimer (1991a, 199b) argues that demonstrative utterances can refer to objects that are not the targets of the speaker's directing intentions, contrary to what she takes Kaplan (1989b) to be arguing.