Sentence examples for empty kind from inspiring English sources

Then, provided co-referring terms can have different descriptive contents, and provided further that empty kind terms have descriptive contents, we can explain the informativeness of (13), the meaningfulness of (14) and (15), and the fact that (16) does not ascribe inconsistent beliefs to Fred.

January is traditionally an empty kind of month.

At one point, she told me that she identified as a glass half empty kind of gal.

Could one instead go for a hybrid criterion, metalinguistic for empty kinds, extensional for non-empty kinds?

I am a glass-half-empty kind of person.

We haven't had to strain too hard to make today's front page uplifting, but neither would it have been a stretch, in a glass-half-empty kind of way, to invert these stories.

Curiously, his comments couldn't have been more at odds with those he'd make some 20 years later about being the glass-half-empty kind of person who never actually thought he was going to win gold.

(Big Steve is a glass-half-empty kind of guy; blame the recession).

During the game, someone sitting behind me (who was a glass half-empty kind of guy) said: "We're getting thumped and South Africa aren't even playing well".

This view hypothesizes that possession of a (non-empty) kind concept requires the ability to ostend or demonstratively identify instances of the kind by perceptual means (Brewer 1999; 2000a; 2000a).

Sometimes, I am definitely more of the cup-is-half-empty kind of guy.