Sentence examples for meaning determination from inspiring English sources

As we noted above (section 2.1.1), the problem of error, by itself, would seem to be a problem for naturalistic accounts of meaning determination quite independently of normativity.

Alternatively, the MD normativist might adopt an account according to which meaning determination has two components, a dispositionalist and a normativist component.

MD normativism is often taken to provide solutions to certain classical problems of meaning determination, most prominently the "problem of error".

Or it might be argued that MD normativism's superior capacity to deal with the problem of error provides evidence for its being the right account of meaning determination.

Primitive normativity thus is a notion not only needed in an account of meaning determination, but in any account of rule-following in general.

Such an account of meaning determination would be "partially reductive" (Ginsborg 2011a, 230; 249): it would combine a naturalist component with a non-semantic but normative (and minimally intentional) component.

Like the principle of compositionality, (Fall) can be interpreted as a claim about reference or meaning, locally or globally, collectively or distributively, in a language-bound manner or cross-linguistically. Compositionality is about bottom-up meaning-determination, while the context principle about top-down meaning-determination.

The very idea of military service is inextricably linked to national identity, patriotism, independence, and sisu a Finnish word meaning gutsy, stubborn determination and drive.

Among the study's strengths are the high follow-up rates in each wave of the investigation, meaning the prospective determination of severe oral health impairment (and the length of time over which the exposure data are collected), and the use of data on severe oral health impairment incidence as well as prevalence, should be possible in future data collection waves.

The government's solution is to require 30% of board seats to be held by women in all listed companies that are subject to "co-determination"—meaning that they are required by law to have representatives of their workers on their supervisory boards.

Britain has long been the home of a people who have shown the world the meaning of determination and bravery: in Wales this week we witnessed a surrender to the forces of extremism".