Sentence examples for notion of reference from inspiring English sources

A related concern is that the deflationary nominalist introduces a non-standard notion of reference that does not presuppose the existence of the objects that are referred to (Bueno and Zalta 2005).

"The whole notion of reference material online really has been underexploited," says analyst Ross Scott Rubin of Jupiter Communications.

One of the oldest metaphysical problems — the so-called 'problem of non-being' — involves the notion of reference.

Certain epistemological problems — e.g. Putnam's infamous 'brain in a vat' thought-experiment — also involve the notion of reference.

Second, it promises to ensure a more stable notion of reference than in purely descriptivist accounts of reference and meaning.

Others suggest that semantics assigns too important a role to the notion of reference to discrete individuals (Hintikka and Hintikka 1983).

The importance of combining several design-principles for designing curricular materials is discussed in terms of Alexander's design-pattern language and his notion of referencing between design-patterns.

In particular his focusing on the semantic notions of reference and truth turned out as instructive for the following development, as it is represented in the (programmatically diverse) writings of Richard Boyd, Larry Laudan, and specifically Hilary Putnam.

Just as signification corresponds most closely — though not exactly — to contemporary ideas of meaning or sense, so supposition corresponds in some ways to modern notions of reference, denotation and extension.

The independent reference model (IRM) is often used to capture the notion of page reference frequencies [76].

Finally, the notion of the reference POMDP is introduced.