Sentence examples for descriptive contents from inspiring English sources

We are interested in how accurately the descriptive contents within radiology reports convey the feelings of the radiologist to the referring clinician.

It can focus on the descriptive contents, and specify how the term is actually used.

A single indexical can have different descriptive contents in different contexts, and so can have different referents in different contexts.

Hybrid theorists of this sort then propose to use the descriptive contents contributed by moral terms and moral sentences to explain the logical relations between these.

Then, provided co-referring terms can have different descriptive contents, and provided further that empty kind terms have descriptive contents, we can explain the informativeness of (13), the meaningfulness of (14) and (15), and the fact that (16) does not ascribe inconsistent beliefs to Fred.

We could regard the description we have been discussing as a first step; the second step would be to replace the expressions 'liquid', 'sky'lakeand', and so on with their own descriptive contents.

Adding the operator thus rigidifies the description by projecting its descriptive content onto the level of character.

Because the descriptive content in question is typically characterized by means of a definite description (an expression of the form the F), such theories are often (even if somewhat misleadingly[1]) known as 'descriptivist theories' of proper names.

Although this description for which 'Petrarch' is shorthand is world-indexed, it shares the descriptive content of the non-indexed 'the famous humanist most closely associated with the Italian Renaissance'.

The name Aristotle, for example, does not seem to carry any descriptive content.

In Kripke, the descriptive content of a name does not determine denotation or reference.