Sentence examples for force indicator from inspiring English sources

Frege thus employs what would now be called a force indicator: an expression whose use indicates the force with which an associated proposition is being put forth.

Recall that one, the phrastic, represents a proposition or state of affairs, and the other, the neustic, functions as something like a force indicator, insofar as the neustic indicates what speech-act is being performed with the phrastic.

The damage force indicator technique is used to locate the porous region in a beam and also to find its length, using the measured wave propagation responses.

Searle 1969 had argued that a performative formula such as "I promise to…" is an "illocutionary force indicator" in the sense that it is a device whose role is to make explicit the force of the speaker's utterance.

Moreover, Donald Davidson (1979, 1984a) stressed that no conventional sign could work as a force indicator in this sense, since any conventional sign could be used (and would be used) in insincere utterances, where the corresponding force was missing, including cases of deception, jokes, impersonation and other theatrical performances.

Recent large studies have indicated that many of the meat quality traits are moderately heritable and, despite some potentially less than desirable genetic correlations between traits, there is scope to incorporate new and novel traits such as shear force (indicator of tenderness), intramuscular fat and omega-3 fatty acids in breeding programs.

If this claim is correct, natural language already contains force indicators in this qualified sense.

Whether it is worth introducing such force indicators into a logical notation remains an open question.

One way to think of the idea is that moral terms function as force indicators on analogy with mood.

An in-depth investigation of sequent calculi using formulas prefixed by an assertion sign or a rejection sign, understood as non-embeddable force indicators, can be found in Bendall 1978, Humberstone 2000.

Subsequent to Austin's introduction of the notion of a performative, it has also been suggested that what we might call performative sentential frames behave like force indicators: 'I claim that it is sunny,' seems to be a prolix way of saying that it is sunny, where the 'I claim' seems only to indicate how what follows is to be taken.