Sentence examples for linguistic notion from inspiring English sources

Why should philosophy be interested in what would seem to be a purely linguistic notion?

However, "nature" emphasizes characteristics that are biological (in a broad sense) and developmental, while "essence" is a more static and linguistic notion.

This distinction is then expressed in its most developed form, for Cassirer, in the linguistic notion of propositional truth and thus in the propositional copula.

Although Geach seems closest to Quine, since 'expression' seems to be a linguistic notion, Geach generalizes his results across languages in ways that Quine would not find agreeable.

We find, with the lexeme, multiple dimensions which challenge our linguistic notions of size and relativity.

Second, suggestion is a pseudo-linguistic notion for Reid.

By contrast, the de dicto account corresponds to a purely linguistic (or conceptual) notion of vagueness.

For non-linguistic skills, the notion of a highly effective skill learning capacity in adults as well as a robust capacity for experience-dependent neural plasticity is well supported [12] [14], [ 48] [49].

Note the contrast with the meaning of linguistic expressions that this notion of concept induces: On this notion of concept, the connection between a concept and 'its meaning' or 'its content' is not arbitrary, or even contingent; quite the contrary, a concept would naturally seem to be a meaning or a content; the meaning or content of the corresponding linguistic expression.

The notion of linguistic meaning, the special concern of philosophical and linguistic semantics, must be distinguished from other common notions with which it is sometimes confused.

It also suggests that manipulations of linguistic expressions of ontological notions may reflect how ontological notions evolve.