Sentence examples for literal discourse from inspiring English sources

Thus free logic may play a role in reasoning that mixes fictional and literal discourse.

Nor would abstractionism face the technical challenges that fictionalism faces, since all the merely possible worlds would in fact exist; there would be no problem of switching back and forth between fictional and literal discourse.

Yablo's view would be congenial to the Quinean project if it were possible to make out the line between literal and figurative discourse: Quine's ontologically serious discourse could then be identified with thoroughly literal discourse, assertively uttered.

It severed the links to the (non-literal) historic discourses and intellectual traditions of Islam, and its religiosity increasingly became an externalized, very visible, almost secularized, outer projection.

The goal of such repeated interpretation was to unearth the meanings that underlay the literal level of discourse in a given record and that also permeated the larger sample of records.

A different point is that there is sometimes — or, in the most radical version of the idea, always — no fact of the matter as to whether some piece of discourse is literal or fictional.

Literally his literal genitals.

In response to the literal interpretation, Clement wrote The Discourse Concerning the Salvation of Rich Men, in which he stated that wealth is a neutral factor in the problem.

There is no escape.While considerations of fairness often play an important role in literal negotiation, I think fairness-talk in political discourse is generally part of more numinous negotiation over the meaning of fairness itself.

Some prominent types of fictionalism claim only that in ordinary utterances of sentences of some discourse, speakers don't aim at literal truth.

Discourse analysis involves looking beyond the literal meaning of language, understanding the context in which social interaction takes place and exploring what was said, when and why.