Sentence examples for infinite use from inspiring English sources

The capacity to generate unlimited meaning by placing one thought inside another is the crux of Chomsky's theory — what he calls, quoting the early-nineteenth-century German linguist Wilhelm von Humboldt, "the infinite use of finite means".

But since language can be readily expressed in non-acoustic domains, such as writing or sign language, this similarity provides little insight into other core aspects of language, such as its capacity to produce an unlimited range of meaningful sentences - what linguist Wilhelm von Humboldt called 'making infinite use of finite means' [ 1].

But where Wagner saw Beethoven's choral finale as marking the limits to purely instrumental expression, Bruckner aimed for the infinite using merely instrumental resources.

Where the failure of Randian objectivism was the focus of the first game, Infinite uses its 1912 period setting to deconstruct modern political thought.

He introduced them to important words, words like mierda, culo, and pendejo, while offering the more advanced students a primer on the nearly infinite uses of huevo (huevón, hasta las huevas, hueveo, huevear, se hueveó la huevada).

For Touré, post-blacks see blackness "not as a dogmatic code worshiping at the altar of the hood and the struggle but as an open-source document, a trope with infinite uses".

Post-blackness sees blackness not as a dogmatic code worshiping at the altar of the hood and the struggle but as an open-source document, a trope with infinite uses.

The internet will surely find infinite uses for this stunningly simple life hack, so expect videos of ice machine-dispensed peanuts and Maltesers soon, along with dog biscuits fired directly into their pets' mouths with a flick of a switch.

The famous pocket knife has infinite uses – and looks good, too.

Levinas has recourse, for example, to Maimonides' approach to the Infinite, using a negative interpretation of affirmative propositions.

In the 13th century, Roger Bacon argued that the speed of light in air was not infinite, using philosophical arguments backed by the writing of Alhazen and Aristotle.