Sentence examples for descriptive function from inspiring English sources

In these countries the term commercial transactions thus has more than a merely descriptive function.

Installation art is perfectly suited to the descriptive function it plays for performance art, complementing and augmenting a theme.

Like that great Dutchman, she draws in a manner opposed to drawing's descriptive function, keeping her line loose and a-crackle, in gladiatorial combat with the subjects that occasion it.

For short, Strawson claimed that 'is true' has a performative rather than a descriptive function.

These categories have carried out a descriptive function in the analysis and construction of knowledge capable of simplifying urban complexity.

The reasons we use noun phrases are listed as follows: (1) Noun phrases are more substantive, while adjectives always serve as the descriptive function.

In addition to the descriptive mapping function, GIS possesses capabilities of data manipulation and geostatistical analysis.

In chapter *30 Whitehead and Russell propose a direct analysis of such expressions for mathematical functions in terms of definite descriptions, which they call "descriptive functions".

Descriptive functions are defined using relations and definite descriptions.

Mathematical or descriptive functions are thus explicitly included among the incomplete symbols of Principia Mathematica.

Examples of descriptive functions are x + y and the successor of n.