But Heim's and Kamp's methods are both ways of insuring that the truth of a discourse like (15) requires that some one thing satisfy both the predicative material in the indefinite and the sentence containing it, and the predicative material the anaphoric pronoun is combined with.
Wall Street traders complaining about the possibility that anyone besides Wall Street traders might receive government assistance did not seem to me, at that moment in political history, like a discourse that was likely to catch on with the public.
In this discourse-like review, we argue that modelling with reliable simulations of human-environmental interactions necessitate linking modelling and simulation research much stronger to science fields such as landscape ecology, community ecology, eco-hydrology, etc.
In Washington, where the country's political discourse is scripted, it seems they do still make 'em like that.
We are not and will not be defined by ideological special interests who would like to eliminate discourse that leads to economic vitality, jobs and fiscal stability for the states.
Like any discourse that threatens existing power, the conflict is primarily between the establishment -- represented by Karl Rove -- and various insurgencies -- including one that's hilariously led in part by Clarence Thomas' wife.
While I understand the impetus for this kind of thinking, that is -- the way in which we seemingly need to chart human growth in linear terms, the question of "better off now" is, much like the discourse that immediately followed the 1992 uprising, far too simplistic.
It is perhaps these 'surface' features of moral discourse, those that make it look like moral claims are assertions, and hence expressions of belief, and so truth-evaluable, and that moral disagreement appears to be genuine moral disagreement, that later tempted Ayer to consider Mackie's 'error' theory of moral language (Mackie 1977) as closer to the truth (in Ayer 1984).
"We like stuff that causes social discourse," he adds, "and this ad has definitely done that".
Presuppositions, according van der Sandt, introduce information that prefers to be linked to discourse referents that are already available in the hearer's representation of the discourse, and in this respect they are like pronouns.
