Sentence examples for object under discussion from inspiring English sources

The object under discussion is "Canyon," a masterwork of 20th-century art created by Robert Rauschenberg that Mrs. Sonnabend's children inherited when she died in 2007.

The dating of Chinese pottery is further complicated by the fact that there were traditional and persisting types that overlapped; quite often, therefore, dynastic labels cannot be regarded as anything more than an indication of the affinities of the particular object under discussion.

Depending on the kind of object under discussion — i.e., whether we're talking about mathematical objects or properties or what have you — the details of this view will be worked out differently.

Following a standard assumption in traditional grammar (assumptions also adopted in Heim (1982)), they argue that 'the' signals that the object under discussion is given in the conversational context.

Consider, for example, an Aristotelian, Kantian, and Millian individually deliberating over whether a particular action or object is good, their respective deliberation and use of 'This is good' guided, as they would be, by their beliefs about whether the action or object under discussion exemplifies the promotion of a teleological end, a Good Will, or pleasure respectively.

And narrating the sky show was not a recorded movie star but a real astronomer at the controls of the star projector, wielding a flashlight pointer to call attention to objects under discussion, clearing his throat from time to time, and sometimes even cracking a joke.

Conceptualism (also called psychologism and mentalism, depending on the sorts of objects under discussion): This is the view that there do exist numbers — or properties, or propositions, or whatever — but that they do not exist independently of us; instead, they are mental objects; in particular, the claim is usually that they are something like ideas in our heads.

Co-speech iconic gestures are of particular interest because these are the gestures which occur spontaneously alongside language, depicting attributes of the events or objects under discussion without being conventionalised symbols (McNeill, 1992).

The problem of synthesis of robust state observers for dynamical objects is under discussion.

Nominalism (also called anti-realism): This is the view that there are no such things as numbers, or universals, or whatever sort of alleged abstract objects are under discussion.

Norm-expressivists suggest (roughly) that the states of mind expressed by moral sentences are attitudes of acceptance of various norms or rules governing conduct and emotion, perhaps coupled with a judgment that the objects or action under discussion comports with those norms.