Such sentences have a particular importance for Quine in connection with the idea of reference.
In this article, we will explore the philosophical puzzles that arise in connection with the idea of offering petitionary prayers to God, as understood along the lines just described, along with the most influential attempts to solve them.
We speak of a defective heart valve, for example, in connection with the idea of its proper function, where this seems objectively grounded in facts about the life of the kind of organism in question: if a type of structure has a proper function in members of a given species, and this particular one is failing to perform that function in normal circumstances, then we can say that it is defective.
28 Self-care, in connection with this idea, depended on motivating and demotivating factors.
In connection with beliefs, the idea here is that to believe that, say, snow is white, is to have a neural sentence stored in your head (in a belief way, as opposed to a desire way, or some other way) that means in mentalese that snow is white.
In connection with the former his ideas eventually made their way to Europe, where they influenced the English mathematician John Wallis (1616 1703); in connection with the latter he argued for the important idea of enlarging the notion of number to include ratios of magnitudes (and hence such irrational numbers as √2 and π).
He was critical of other philosophers, such as William James (in connection with the thesis that an idea never occurs twice in consciousness, as stated in James 1890, especially Chapter XII), for failing to distinguish between the object immanent to an act of consciousness and the real object allegedly external to consciousness (Marty 1916a, 139 ff).
We brought up these essential ideas above in connection with the hypothesis of nuclear evolution being driven by meiosis, because concepts such as molecular crowding, spatial organization of DNA repair machines, and enhanced kinetics of DNA repair by restricted diffusion of substrates also apply to the function of the nucleus during meiotic recombination.
The government of Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra has proposed the idea of a broad amnesty in connection with the protests.
An administration official said the United States might even be prepared to offer economic incentives, an idea it previously disparaged in connection with the Clinton administration's 1994 deal to freeze North Korea's nuclear program, which the North subsequently breached.
One person involved said that lawyers for the committee raised the idea of sending subpoenas to the Barclay brothers in connection with the current lawsuit against Lord Black.
