Sentence examples for in a conversation from inspiring English sources
Here I have made an assertion but have not engaged in a conversation.
In a conversation with Ji Kangzi (who had usurped power in Lu), Confucius advised: "If your desire is for good, the people will be good.
Hermann Göring made a similar observation in a conversation with Nuremberg's prison psychiatrist: "the victor will always be the judge, and the vanquished the accused" (Bass 2002: 8).
On Stalnaker's model, propositions are presupposed in a conversation if they are on record as belonging to the common ground between the speakers.
Lewis develops an extended analogy between the role of context in a conversation and the role of score in a baseball game.
At any stage in a conversation, many things are taken for granted by speaker and hearer, i.e. many possibilities are taken as already ruled out.
According to L1, it is not possible for me to lie to no one whatsoever (i.e., not even myself), and it is not possible to lie to someone whom one is not addressing but whom one believes is listening in on a conversation.
And whereas people ordinarily ask what beauty really consists in, so that a conversation on the topic might actually have taken place, it is hard to imagine worrying over "what the fine is" or "what is really fine".
Stalnaker provides a model of a conversation in which assertion and presupposition dynamically interact.
Feyerabend recalled a conversation in which Bohr had talked about the discovery that the square root of two cannot be an integer or a fraction.
