Sentence examples for in ordinary uses from inspiring English sources

Yablo (2001) stresses, in the case of mathematical fictionalism, that in ordinary uses of mathematical sentences, we seem to assert something apriori and necessary, but it does not seem apriori and necessary that according to the fiction of standard mathematics, things stand thus-and-so.

Knox wears probably the oldest hat in ordinary use.

As a general term, it covers all forms of garden management, but in ordinary use it refers to intensive commercial production.

Touch in ordinary use involves specialized movements and grips.

In ordinary use, the magnified image is not seen as it is blocked by polarising filters set in a companion pair of spectacles.

The vast majority of cases almost anyone without an ax to grind would want to classify as "terrorism" exhibit the two traits implied in ordinary use and highlighted by mainstream philosophical definitions such as those quoted above: violence and intimidation.

The end piece was in such a state that it would have failed sooner or later in ordinary use.

And I suppose that Keats meant something by it, however remote his truth and his beauty may have been from these words in ordinary use.

No one any longer seriously questions the length of the meter in ordinary use, any more than anyone contests the biological meaning of sperm or stegosaurus, systolic blood pressure, or sickle cell anemia.

The two are connected etymologically and historically, and this connection is deeply entrenched in current ordinary use.

'Mental', as Ryle (1949) suggests, in its ordinary use is a rather grab-bag term, 'mental arithmetic', 'mental illness', etc. with which an identity theorist finds no trouble.