Sentence examples for expressing claims from inspiring English sources

He suggests that we employ such nouns as 'fact' and 'state of affairs' as non-referential devices for expressing claims.

Chisholm (1948) raised the most important challenge to Lewis' claim that a physical object statement P entails and is entailed by a set of counterfactual statements expressing claims about what experiences one would have were one to (seem to) carry out certain tests upon being presented with certain sensory cues.

As we shall see in §5, New Relativism, where the objects of relativization (in the left column) are utterance tokens expressing claims about cognitive norms, moral values, etc. and the domain of relativization is the standards of an assessor, has also been the focus of much recent discussion.

Facing the tumult of transition and an ever-deteriorating social safety net, Tunisians have expressed claims and grievances predominantly through demonstrations, sit-ins and strikes.

More generally, on the KP theory, theses about de re essential properties need not be analytic; they are meaningful because they express claims about an object's properties in various possible worlds.

For a given experiment or observation, let 'c' represent a description of the relevant conditions under which it is performed, and let 'e' represent a description of the result, the evidential outcome of conditions c. Scientific hypotheses often require the mediation of background knowledge and auxiliary hypotheses to help them express claims about evidence.

Ethnic Macedonian irredentists following the idea of a "United Macedonia" have expressed claims to what they refer to as "Aegean Macedonia" (in Greece), "Pirin Macedonia" (in Bulgaria), "Mala Prespa and Golo Bardo" (in Albania), and "Gora and Prohor Pčinjski" (in Serbia).

News pieces have a different purpose to, and readership from, journal articles and are not expected to reproduce them or express claims in the same way.

Their only purpose is to provide copy - this despite the frequently expressed claim by newspapers that the death of their mother, Diana, Princess of Wales, would change press behaviour.

One commonly expressed claim has it that agents can acquire rectificatory obligations as a result of benefiting from acts of injustice committed by others, such as their ancestors.

As Pearl readily acknowledges, his work draws on a long tradition in econometrics of interpreting equations that express causal claims as claims about the outcomes of hypothetical experiments��see, e.g., Haavelmo, 1944.