Sentence examples similar to express avowal from inspiring English sources

Avowals are authoritative, not because the avowing subject has special epistemic access to the states they ascribe, but simply because avowals express mental states directly.

One philosophical treatment of the nature of animal alarm calls defends the view that alarm calls are best understood as neo-expressive avowals — self reports of one's present mental state that have both an action component (the expressing) and a semantic component (the representation) (McAninch et al. 2009).

First-person authority stems from the fact that it is only the subject herself who can directly express her states through an avowal.

Neo-expressivists emphasize the directness with which a mental state can issue in an avowal.

The avowal is a verbal expression of an emotion just as the original instinctual, facial expression.

"The Nearness of You" was demystified to the extent that this song — usually presented as a hushed, poetic avowal — was reconceived as an offhanded expression of love.

The need to identify the legislative purpose has been said to involve the court in the "thornier aspects of judicial review", because it must either "uncritically and often unrealistically accept a legislative avowal at face value" or "challenge legislative integrity and push beyond the express statement into unconfined realms of inference".

That self-attribution is then an avowal: it does not simply register the belief's presence but expresses commitment to it.

With avowal came a legal conundrum.

"What?" Perhaps expecting some avowal, some earthy plea.

His avowal of innocence failed to sway Judge Shira Scheindlin.