Sentence examples for occasions of use from inspiring English sources

So there is some sense in which "all" doesn't always mean all: On some occasions of use, "all", or "all the F's" means all (or all the F's) within a limited domain.

I remarked how odd it was to think that the word "if" could have radically different meanings on different occasions of use, for example one meaning in a sentence like "If Oswald didn't kill Kennedy, someone else did," and another meaning in a sentence like "If Oswald hadn't of killed Kennedy, someone else would have".

'Gold', on most occasions of use, does not refer to a thing it refers to many things.

Verbal and nonverbal signs don't possess fixed meanings or applicability conditions independent of particular occasions of use.

We will also assume that the sentences in question do not change their content across occasions of use, i.e., that they display no context-dependence.

In that case, one might hope to offer a generalized theory of what makes particular indexicals (including, now, names) refer to specific things on particular occasions of use.

What's going on here is that the quantifier phrases of natural language ("all", "most", "some", etc). are to be understood, on an occasion of use, relative to a contextually determined domain.

Alternatively, we can say that a proposition is that which is expressed by a sentence on a particular occasion of use.

For Peter, the term signifies a form, and supposits naturally for a class of objects, whereas an occurrence of the term supposits accidentally on an occasion of use for a group of those objects.

If it is the actual attitudes of the speaker that determine the property, a speaker may not use the same term to pick out the same property on each occasion of use.

On the other hand, common names are like terms such as 'trio' or 'pair' in that they pick out a determinate plurality of individuals, but only on an occasion of use, since their extension is variable.