Eric Lenneberg, Noam Chomsky, and Steven Pinker have also criticized Whorf for failing to be sufficiently clear in his formulation of how language influences thought, and for failing to provide real evidence to support his assumptions.
The objective of the chapter is to provide a base of understanding of the formulation of an assembly-language program so that programs can be deciphered, to obtain a feel for what the program is trying to accomplish.
It discusses that a wide range of combinatorial search problems find a natural formulation in the language of sets, multisets, strings, functions, graphs or other structured objects.
Computation theory provides a means for specifying such processes in a formal way, a bit like how the alphabet and writing allow the specifying of language formulations in print for current storage and later reconstruction.
In the 1920s Birkhoff and others gave this theorem a rigorous formulation in the language of dynamical systems and measure theory, the same setting as the ergodic theorem.
Poetic language, in Gass's succinct formulation, is "a radical reversal" of language's "function in ordinary life".
His Basque studies coincided with his formulation of a new conception of language questioning and defying the representational view of language that had been dominant in Western thinking from Aristotle all the way to the empiricist and rationalist thinkers of his day.
After all, without Quine's criterion of ontological commitment, neither quantification over a given object (in a first-order language) nor formulation of true claims about such an object entails the existence of the latter.
Documents obtained under freedom of information legislation show undergraduates at the university have been advised that "language is important and highly symbolic" and informed they should be "aware of the powerful and symbolic nature of language and use gender-sensitive formulations", while "failure to use gender-sensitive language will impact your mark".
Moreover, if language is about nothing but itself, any formulation that uses language to make statements denying the relationship of language to anything outside itself must be meaningless.
This formulation of the test presupposes that the underlying language in question is a language containing conditionals (iterated or not).
