Sentence examples for descriptive conditions from inspiring English sources

Kaplan intended to contrast directly referential expressions with expressions such as definite descriptions, which, though designating particular individuals, do so by means of descriptive conditions being expressed by the description and satisfied by the designated individual.

(Kaplan [1977] p. 483) The designation of definite descriptions is mediated by something like a Fregean sense (i.e. their associated descriptive conditions).

While the purely qualitative descriptive conditions a speaker believes the day of her speech satisfies may be satisfied by a different day, it is much less clear that the above descriptive condition is satisfied by the wrong day.

More controversially, Donnellan (1966) argued that in the case of 'referential' uses of definite descriptions, the reference of the description, rather than the descriptive condition, is a constituent of the proposition expressed.

On Russell's view, Sally descriptively identifies even Bill, but the descriptive condition she employs contains direct reference to her occurrent sense data.

Some theorists have challenged the coherence of non-cognitivism by arguing that if the appropriateness of an assertive utterance depends on a certain descriptive condition being fulfilled, then that descriptive condition constitutes (part of the) truth condition for that utterance.

For example, the content of 'I' in \(c\) is the agent of \(c\); its content in \(c\) is not the property or descriptive condition of being the agent of \(c\), or being the speaker of \(c\), or being the person uttering 'I', or any other sort of property or descriptive condition.

For suppose that there were a purely qualitative descriptive condition F Hume associated with his use of 'I' that gives its sense; say, the condition expressed by the expression 'the philosopher who argued against the rationality of induction'.

By this he means that the content of an indexical, with respect to a context \(c\), is the object to which it refers in \(c\); its content is not a property or descriptive condition that determines the referent.

This is because Sally can demonstratively identify Bill and thus have thoughts determinately about Bill as opposed to his qualitative twin Bill* and then think of Morgan under the descriptive condition Bill's mother.

For the majority of descriptive condition-specific outcome measures, there is no preference-based alternative with comparable sensitivity and coverage.