Sentence examples for historical chain from inspiring English sources

Mr. Heitz, who died in 2001, was an important link in the historical chain of Napa cabernet.

If one were to trace the historical chain of generations backward, however, at some point one would arrive at what seems to be a different species.

The strength of Mr. Goldhagen's argument is that it makes strikingly clear the ways in which the Inquisition, the pogroms and the Holocaust are links in the same dread historical chain.

"In an instant," said Mr. Ranstorp, "you are propelled from being no one to someone who is glorified, and lionized with poems, and you live on in this historical chain of heroic martyrs, being remembered and saluted far longer than if you had not undertaken this kind of operation".

As another link in a historical chain that dates to 1926 and has been broken only by World War II, the game was steeped in significance for the participants and the crowd of 85,417, even if it did not carry the weight this storied rivalry has in past years.

On the one hand, given his references to an original baptism or name-giving ceremony, we can regard Buridan as offering an early hint of the historical chain theory of proper names.

According to Kripke's causal theory of reference, for example, the referent of a given use of a proper name, such as Aristotle, is transmitted through an indefinitely long series of earlier uses; this series constitutes a causal-historical chain that is traceable, in principle, to an original, or "baptismal," application.

It is conceivable that all true cases of a vehicle changing its reference are purposeful, and hence break the causal-historical chain by violating this condition.

Causal descriptivism (Loar 1976, Lewis 1984, Kroon 1987, Jackson 1998) considers a token of a name t to have the semantic value of the definite description 'the individual dubbed in the ceremony connected by a causal-historical chain to t'.

For example, Michael Devitt (1981) takes senses to be causal-historical chains linking utterances of names to their referents (see the Causal-Historical Theory below).

Notably, the kind of causation that Psillos's hybrid account refers to is different from the causal-historical chains that Kripke thought responsible for the transmission of reference among speakers.