Sentence examples for indefinite scope from inspiring English sources
Yet this implication may trouble us, not only because of the indefinite scope it offers to paternalism, but because it would seem undeterminable what an agent would want if indefinitely informed.
Referential uses of indefinites must be either a function of quantifier scope or a semantically referential indefinite determiner.
The UN report also said the Eritrean government is carrying out extrajudicial killings, torture, rape, indefinite national service and forced labour "on a scope and scale seldom witnessed elsewhere".
Does he not include in his definition of "the protection of individuals against the state" the prevention of indefinite detention without trial, the reduction in the scope of so-called "control orders", the absolute prohibition of torture, the requirement that evidence procured by torture must not be admitted in court or the reversal of the onus of proof to protect mental health detainees?
In fact, it has been noted that indefinites seem to escape from nearly any normal scope island whatsoever.
The moral was supposed to be that these "wide" readings are not the reflex of wide scope quantification (that would be to make indefinite descriptions syntactically special), but rather due to the fact that the indefinites in these examples are referring expressions.
In order to derive these logical forms, we have to assume not only that an indefinite expression buried in a subordinate position ends up having wide scope, but also that it acquires universal force in the process.
In his current job, Mr. Johnson worked closely on internal debates about the scope and limits of the government's power to hold terrorism suspects in indefinite detention and to target them with drone strikes in places like Yemen and Somalia.
