Sentence examples for ground worlds from inspiring English sources

The first inference states that the set of worlds that forms the quantificational domain, i.e., D w), which the attitude works on, is a set of p-worlds, and the second inference tells us that the set of common ground worlds, i.e., C, which contains all the background assumptions (by the speaker), is a set of ¬p-worlds.

The first half of the truth-conditions states that the proposition φ is true in the whole quantificational domain that the counterfactual attitude verb works upon, and the second half states that such a domain, viz. the set of φ-worlds, is not included in the set of common ground worlds, where the proposition φ is false.

We are also about to launch the online version of our prize-winning CDRom, "On Common Ground: World Religions in America," with the generous support of the Lilly Endowment, which supported our fledgling Pluralism Project research some twenty years ago.

Diana L. Eck, professor of comparative religion and Indian studies, and director of The Pluralism Project at Harvard University, is the editor of On Common Ground: World Religions in America, a multimedia CD-ROM (Columbia).

She appeared in the West End in It's a Two Feet Six Inches Above the Ground World (Wyndham's theatre, 1970) and The Millionairess (Theatre Royal, Haymarket, 1978-79).

Our setting was the eerie below ground world at Welbeck Abbey in Nottinghamshire.

The singer's words stand out, exploring the surreal and dark corners of both the supernatural and grounded worlds.

This is a very grounded world, about what happens to an ordinary group of people when something really unexpected and unfathomable arrives in their midst.

Yes, there are those who simply cannot bear being disconnected from the above-ground world even on a short train ride.

Because the people of Ember, forbidden to venture into the above-ground world, have forgotten their past, they face subterranean extinction.

Unpopular and brainy, he quickly takes to the cyborgs when he stumbles upon them and does his best to integrate them into the above-ground world where they've never been, bringing them to school and giving them a party.