Sentence examples for of our utterances from inspiring English sources

Charity, after all, is not the only factor involved in determining the meanings of our utterances.

Suppose a Martian were to come to know the meaning of our utterances by using a quite different system of rules.

The original inquiry has matured in the late twentieth century to an inquiry into the practical aspects of our utterances and actions, more to the point of the linguistic justification of our utterances and actions in an environment in constant change.

Putnam's model-theoretic argument aimed to show that there are very many different assignments of reference to subsentential expressions of our language which make all of our utterances true.

In fact, on an epiphenomenalist view, all the arguments for epiphenomenalism and rebuttals to counterarguments we have reviewed might be given even if we were all zombies — i.e., even if we were all possessed of physical causes of our utterances and completely devoid of any mental life whatsoever.

Since the fundamental nature of neo-pragmatism is the justification of our utterances and our past or proposed actions to a contingent world we can resolve the problem of the double bind and find a solution to Hume's is/ought question.

We evaluated the discriminative ability of our utterance verifier using Receiver Operator Characteristic (ROC) curves, in which the two types of error rates, that is, the false-positive and false-negative rates, are plotted for different thresholds.

More to the point we justify our prediction of the outcome of our present utterances and actions through language.

We have been good-ing and bad-ing things up and down for hundreds of years whilst radically misunderstanding the meanings of our own utterances.

The idea is that there are many unobtrusive metaphors; and that if metaphors can often be this unobtrusive, then maybe the non-literalness of our actual utterances of sentences of D is also unobtrusive.

However the story about the origins of our linguistic dispositions is told, it had better be that our utterances of "the entropy of the Big Bang was very low" somehow end up evincing just the right sort of differential sensitivity to the Big Bang's having low entropy.