Sentence examples for indicative sentence from inspiring English sources

So the truth condition of an indicative sentence is the set of possible worlds in which it is true.

Minimalism allows us to generate a minimal truth condition for any meaningful indicative sentence, such as 'Lying is wrong' is true iff lying is wrong.

One can consistently hold that an indicative sentence has truth value, and even that it may be uttered in such a way as to say something true, while denying that its utterance is an assertion.

Competent speakers are usually well aware when a grammatically indicative sentence is being used to give a command or express a desire (indeed, this is one of the criteria of linguistic competence!).

One version suggests that all you need to know to understand the 'is true' locution is that it is appropriate to use it in conjunction with any indicative sentence which is itself appropriate in the context of use.

For example, languages can be classified on the basis of their basic word order, the relative order of the verb, and its constituents in a normal indicative sentence.

For indicative sentences, such contents are typically called Propositions.

They are, after all, typically expressed in indicative sentences, and people appear to dispute moral claims.

They think that typical utterances of indicative sentences containing moral predicates express beliefs in the same way that other sentences with ordinary descriptive predicates typically do.

Propositions, then, are the contents of indicative sentences, are what such sentences express, and, further, are often thought to be the primary bearers of truth value.

Minimal beliefs would need only to be states of mind expressed in assertions by indicative sentences, while robust beliefs would meet some stronger requirement of representationality (Blackburn 2006).