Sentence examples for determining meanings from inspiring English sources

Her idea is that while dispositions do suffice for determining meanings –– in the sense in which meanings can be correlated with the dispositions of both the genuine speaker and the parrot or automaton –– (primitive) norms are nevertheless required for genuinely meaningful speech or understanding (cf. esp. Ginsborg 2012, 138; Ginsborg 2011a, 244f).

I'm all about context imparting and determining meaning.

The eye-tracking data showed that viewers relied on text information as the main information resource for determining meaning.

Nature might also sometimes play a role in determining meaning, e.g., in the case of natural kind terms.

He illustrated this using his "Twin Earth" thought experiment to argue that environmental factors play a substantial role in determining meaning.

Of course the debate over whether dictionaries should be prescriptive -- asserting that a word has relatively determined meanings and a proper usage; or descriptive, asserting that a word has shifting meanings determined by its popular use -- has been raging for several decades.

Daniel Will Brilll), the eldest, who is writing a thesis about how "language doesn't determine meaning," is clever, tortured and plagued by accusatory voices in his head.

In SFL terms, context "is that which helps determine meaning.

PreviewSeek does a good job at attempting to determine meaning from a query.

It seems that such a view must abandon the idea that our use determines meaning.

(2) One might wonder whether there is something backward about the view that conceptual role determines meaning.