Making all atomic formulas containing empty descriptions false yields a negative free description theory axiomatizable by adding (LL) to NFL (Burge 1974, Lambert 2001h).
There is plenty of room for variation, for MFD fails to specify truth conditions for atomic formulas (including identities) when they contain empty descriptions, and there are many ways to do it.
7. American Psycho by Brett Easton Ellis (1991) Patrick Bateman's description of his kitchen is probably the most exhaustingly and teemingly empty description of anything in the whole of postwar American literature.
is false though each applies the same predicate phrase 'is a possible object' to an empty description.
Additionally, we assumed that all carbon stocks in the carbon module are empty (for a description of the different carbon stocks) We differentiated between three successional stages: (a) early succession, from year 0 to 100 years, (b) intermediate succession, from 101 to 500 years, and (c) late succession or old growth stage, from 500 years until the end of the simulation (1,000 years).
Unbuilding Detroit (Radio 4) began with evocative descriptions of empty private and public spaces.
The latter's search for hidden meanings beyond surface appearances and his descriptions of empty squares surrounded by arcaded buildings in the Italian city of Turin made a particularly deep impression on de Chirico.
The wife of a builder, Ms. Walsh works her way from room to room, filling in the empty spaces with her descriptions of a possible wet bar here, a Jack-and-Jill bath there.
An angel, a unicorn, a T-1000, a freak, an empty vessel: in every description of Antetokounmpo, one can sense the strain of people trying to put into words a sight they haven't seen before.
The adolescent has a very unstable and incoherent picture of herself ("I have no idea who I am", "I only go to school and wait for the next day"), her identity is severely disturbed (no capacity to be alone, suggestible, no differentiation from others without feeling alone, self- description is empty and only related to what her boyfriend or mother does, no perspective).
Emptying his books of plot, descriptions, scene, and character, Beckett is said to have killed off the novel — or else, by showing how it could thrive on self-sabotage, insured its future.
