Sentence examples for of a general term from inspiring English sources

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There is no one agreed notion or definition of concept understood as the meaning of a general term in Classical Indian Philosophy.

A reasonable explanation for this is that most of the time the highest frequency terms in the text of the Web resource are very general and users prefer to add their own tags instead of a general term.

Unfortunately for search-challenged Scandinavians, Google didn't like the idea of its name being part of a general term for online search, and suggested amending the definition to describe only searches performed via Google.

And it is perfectly clear that, for example, the singular substantives 'rabbit', 'tree' and 'planet' do satisfy the object-concept; for insofar as such (a singular occurrence of) a general term as 'rabbit', 'tree' or 'planet' is true of anything, it is true, in virtue of its meaning, of just one item at a time.

What makes the application of a general term rigid is that any item to which the term applies, in any possible world, is part of the extension of that term in all worlds in which it exists (Cook 1980; Devitt forthcoming; Devitt and Sterelny 1999, pp. 85 6).

The writers take the general notion of "sameness" (tong) to express four different types of relations: identity or coextension; part-whole relations; being components or constituent features of something; and sharing some similarity, and thereby being "of a kind" and part of the extension of a general term.

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2. A "starting point" (duan) is the basis for a distinct way of using a general term.

Repeated-measure analysis of variance is a general term that can imply a number of different statistical models used to analyze data from studies in which measurements are taken from each subject on more than one occasion.

Health-related quality of life is a general term that describes the overall impact of a disease, illness or condition on the health and well-being of the affected individual.

Don't even think of putting in a general term like jeans or soccer shoes.

It could even help identify new species of hominid - a general term archaeologists and paleontologists use for humans and our ancestors.

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