Sentence examples for designators for from inspiring English sources

Some authors maintain that there are so many properties that allegedly non-rigid designators for properties always end up rigidly designating some property or other in the plenum: for example, 'the element most discussed in philosophy', a candidate non-rigid designator for gold, may be said to designate rigidly the property of being the element most discussed in philosophy.

Since many philosophers deny that rigidity applies to designators for kinds (see §4.2), designators for other entities serve better to illustrate.

Most of our designators for states of affairs are derived from assertoric sentences.

The distinction between these terms is not erased, as Sher seems to suggest, if we use them as rigid designators for the truth functions they express.

Because they do not differ in ingredient sense or modal content, being rigid designators for the same thing, 'Hesperus = Phosphorus' is necessarily true.

There are various arguments against the coherence or applicability of rigidity with respect even to concrete object designators (for discussion, see Fitch 2004, pp. 102 10), but there is relative calm.

'The length of S (at time t0)' is, on the other hand, a non-rigid designator for one meter; in this world it designates one meter but in other worlds, those in which S is heated or cooled, 'the length of S (at time t0)' designates other lengths.

Often, the vehicles also carried a laser designator for homing munitions.

The same can be said of the term "primitive," once the accepted umbrella designator for the art of Africa and Oceania, folk art, children's drawings and naïve painting.

This process, one that the individual user normally would not be aware of, takes the U.R.L., or address, that normally directs a browser request to the server housing the information and converts the address to an A.R.L., the designator for an Akamai server.

'Watery stuff' just is a designator for stuff that is wet, drinkable, and so on.