Sentence examples for meaning of statements from inspiring English sources

So far, translators have produced only a working consensus about the overall meaning of statements on the three undamaged tapes, the officials said.

The changes are often subtle, but they consistently shift the meaning of statements away from a sense that things are growing warmer in unusual ways.

Logical positivism proposes that the meaning of statements used in science be understood in terms of experimental conditions or observations that verify their truth.

The use of indices opened the door to the iteration of modalities, and the beginning of the third paper of the series (MacColl 1990, 75 6) is devoted to clarify the meaning of statements with iterated indices, including τ for truth and ι for negation.

When Cotton testified, he tended to not remember many events of the October meeting, and attempted to soften the meaning of statements that Hutchinson was being accused of.

However, during data collection, the research team was available to answer any questions and clarify the meaning of statements.

Positivists have often tended to conflate the truth conditions of a statement with its confirming evidence, a procedure which has led to certain absurdities committed by phenomenalists and operationalists, such as the pronouncement that the meanings of statements about past events consist in their (forthcoming future) evidence.

Dummett argues that the meanings of statements must be explicated not in terms of potentially evidence-transcendent truth-conditions but by reference to conditions such as those under which a statement counts as proved or justified which can be recognized to obtain whenever they do.

The absence of this fact, in Kripke's view, leads Wittgenstein to abandon the explanation of the meanings of statements like "By 'plus', I meant addition" in terms of truth-conditions, and to replace it with explanation in terms of assertibility-conditions, which involve actual (not merely potential) community agreement.

While he regards physical and mental things or events as real, he maintains that contents of judgment, i.e. the meanings of statements "in the narrower sense", have only a co-becoming (Mitwerden), which does not allow them to be characterized as real.

For Ayer it was clear that not all evidence for a statement was to be included in the meaning of the statement: a statement about the blood on Jack's jacket was not included in the meaning of the assertion that Jack was the murderer.