Sentence examples for in virtue of the reference from inspiring English sources

Questions might be raised about whether a modest version of the theory of direct reference remains tenable in virtue of the reference of 'α', say.

And yet, in virtue of the possibility of seemingly limitless distinct references to matter (or 'drawings of boundaries'), the rationalisation involves embracing the daunting excesses of a mereology with a 'principle of unrestricted composition'.

As we have just seen, this class is defined in terms of the reference model \(\mathfrak{T}\) in virtue of the assumption that it is a 'reasonable' model of computation.

Then, in virtue of the continuity of, we see that.

or, in virtue of the definition of, (3.11).

And thus not in virtue of the satisfaction of (ii*).

Goal arguments are therefore not intrinsically salient in virtue of having the Goal thematic relation, but acquire salience for later pronominal reference when they constitute the realized endpoints for TOP events as new foci of attention.

In virtue of what does the right obtain?

In fact, even the specter of such disunity should push us to ask: in virtue of what, if not the mechanism by which they 'hook onto' objects in the world, might referential terms all count as devices of reference?

The brain thinks in virtue of its physical properties.

The apple is scarlet not in virtue of instantiating a universal but in virtue of possessing a scarlet trope.