Sentence examples for of certain sentences from inspiring English sources

The treatment of terms in the intensional logic tradition property of certain sentences might seem strange to modern readers.

The challenge to realism posed by language acquisition is to explain how a child could come to know the meanings of certain sentences within his/her language: the ones which the realist contends have undetectable truth-makers associated with them.

In this paper, Frege considered two puzzles about language and noticed, in each case, that one cannot account for the meaningfulness or logical behavior of certain sentences simply on the basis of the denotations of the terms (names and descriptions) in the sentence.

Resumption can be applied to any quantifier (in the syntax, this means replacing each individual variable by a corresponding k-tuple of variables); it has logical uses but also, like RECIP, uses in the interpretation of certain sentences in natural languages; see Section 14 below.

In the case of presupposition failure, for example, it is not clear that the problem is best explained by a failure of certain sentences to have truth values, or by the presence of conventional or conversational implicatures that govern utterances of those sentences.

The Yates decision outraged some conservative members of Congress, who introduced legislation to limit judicial review of certain sentences related to sedition and treason, which did not pass.

A criterion of ontological commitment is a principle that tells us when we are committed to believing in objects of a certain kind in virtue of having assented to certain sentences.

It affects me as one of those moments — certain sentences by F. Scott Fitzgerald, say, or the better turns of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers — when an oxymoronic American dream of aristocratic democracy comes suddenly, briefly true.

The explanans contains two subclasses: "one of these contains certain sentences C l, C 2, … C k which state specific antecedent conditions; the other is a set of sentences L 1, L 2, … L r which represent general laws" (Hempel and Oppenheim 1948, p. 137).

Will they take this chapter of my book and use certain sentences out of context to hurt her chances?

Thus, both accounts analyze sentence meaning as the result of a convention that certain sentences are used to communicate certain propositions.