Sentence examples for linguistic argument from inspiring English sources

Kripke and Plantinga's defenses of modality are paradigmatically metaphysical (except insofar as they directly address Quine's linguistic argument).

One well-known linguistic argument against identifying facts with true propositions is closely related to the Ambiguity Response to The Substitution Problem, considered in Section 5.4.

Shortridge even made a linguistic argument for this hypothesis.

In her critical analysis of Campbell's paper, Bridget Brennan criticizes his archeological arguments, but says that many of them "are sound, particularly with respect to historical documentation and even to a certain extent the linguistic argument".

I prefer the use of "fetus" and there is a good linguistic argument to be made for this spelling.

Mika Okabe, 19, had no time for linguistic arguments.

"I was trying to use Saussurean linguistic arguments to get out of detention.

There are metaphysical and linguistic arguments to the contrary.

As linguistic arguments could not settle these issues, we used neurophysiological brain imaging to address them.

Linguistic arguments of this kind in general, explicitly or implicitly, have the form of an inference to the best explanation.

Sometimes the predicate 'rich' appears in sentences in which it has two (linguistic) arguments, as in 'George is rich for a philosopher'.