Sentence examples for for that utterance from inspiring English sources

Some theorists have challenged the coherence of non-cognitivism by arguing that if the appropriateness of an assertive utterance depends on a certain descriptive condition being fulfilled, then that descriptive condition constitutes (part of the) truth condition for that utterance.

"I'm coming to despise the character of Stewart Lee," he tells us at one point, and there are intriguing hints that, for once, that utterance might contain a shred of the truth.

This judgment can be accounted for by assuming that utterances of the second sentence in (43) are about a particular past situation that exemplifies the first sentence.

And no one can tell you off! Slag! Slag heap! "Don't your mum and your sisters," you could start, knowing that you had a scholastic justification for the utterance that was about to spill from your lips, "live in a slag heap?!" The room erupted with laughter.

I take it for granted that public utterances I make extolling the superiority of my religion pass without notice or even sometimes with praise.

This is a condition that is not met for the utterance of (36) in the lottery scenario.

The domain of this pragmatic function is the set of utterances, which are pairs of sentences and contexts, so that for each utterance, our function will return as a value a new context: the context as changed by the sentence uttered.

Whether it be a veritable argument or not (and Wittgenstein never labeled it as such), these sections point out that for an utterance to be meaningful it must be possible in principle to subject it to public standards and criteria of correctness.

Created by Kate Bond and Morgan Lloyd, and featuring a cast of around 200, "Bum Bum" forces its paying participants to do things likely to go against the grain of folks whose theatergoing has been limited to the West End: saying its title, for starters (an utterance that defies dignity), and — far more daunting — becoming the unconditional center of attention.

With the suggestion that the utterance expression makes a kind of random variations in facial expression, this mean facial shape can be considered as the smoothed facial expression for utterance reduction.

In this case the teacher has singular grounds for the utterance, and is communicating directly to the audience the identity of the individual that serves as the grounds for the utterance.