Sentence examples for natural meaning from inspiring English sources

Among these are natural meaning, as in smoke means fire or those spots mean measles; conventional meaning, as in a red traffic light means stop or the skull and crossbones means danger; and intentional meaning, as in John means well or Frank means business.

The view is an extension of Paul Grice's (1957) notion of natural meaning: unlike the English word 'fire,' which non-naturally means fire, smoke naturally means fire.

It is distinctive of languages that linguistic units possess meaning by convention, and linguistic meaning is very different from what is called natural meaning, exemplified in statements such as "Those clouds mean rain" and "The fall in pressure means the valve is malfunctioning".

"The most natural meaning of this kind of indication," Dr. Marciano said, "would be superymmetry".

In the absence of such a definition, we construe a statutory term in accordance with its ordinary and natural meaning.

He must return to the original meaning of constitutional texts, and to the natural meaning of legal texts.

In the internal language of a Boolean local topos, the logical connectives and quantifiers have their natural meanings.

Information in another semantic sense is just ordinary semantic content or "non-natural meaning" (Grice 1957).

Since sites of decomposition were chosen from the 100 tree sites of litter origin, they were adjacent to the said tree and 'near-natural,' meaning parks of various sizes, green strips, or hedgerows.

Grice used the term 'non-natural meaning' for this sense of 'mean', and in more recent literature this jargon has been replaced with the term 'speaker meaning'.[12] After distinguishing between natural and (what we shall heretofore call) speaker meaning, Grice attempts to characterize the latter.

Naturalisation of population identities as genetic categories can lead to their essentialisation as natural phenomena, meaning that they are seen as a reality of nature (Epstein 2007; M'charek 2005).