Sentence examples for ordinary claim from inspiring English sources

Similarly, an ordinary claim of the form 'it is necessary that p' can be analyzed as: p obtains at every possible world.

So the truth of C′ is compatible with my ordinary claim to know, since the latter might strictly express the proposition that My having hands rather than my having had my hands amputated and replaced with prostheses is what explains why I believe that I have hands rather than that I've had my hands amputated and replaced with prostheses.

This is one of the ways in which Cohen has very lately responded to concerns about contextualism's error theory (2005a, 70).[17] And in a recent paper (2006) DeRose replies along similar lines: if you present a group of subjects with SA, for instance, and ask them whether the conclusion contradicts an ordinary claim to know such a thing, some will say 'yes', and some will say 'no'no

But this is no ordinary claim for secession.

To historians and journalists who are keen to have the Court's papers saved and unsealed, advocates of judicial secrecy insist that the ordinary claims of history and of public interest do not apply to the papers of U.S. Supreme Court Justices; the only claim on the Justices is justice itself.

To Nehru India was "an ancient palimpsest on which layer upon layer of thought and reverie had been inscribed, and yet no succeeding layer had completely hidden what had been written previously".Almost at once, though, the sordid and the ordinary claimed their places.

For the old-fashioned expressivist, then, many of our apparently sincere ordinary claims will have to be rejected.

At a minimum it is a stance about whether people are right in their ordinary claims to know, which is not quite the same as whether they are right in their ordinary utterances of the form 'I know that p'".

This seemed to open the way for a thoroughgoing empiricism in which the logical and mathematical fit in with the ordinary claims of physics and biology in a harmonious way.

For the deflationist, truth has no nature beyond what is captured in ordinary claims such as that 'snow is white' is true just in case snow is white.

To suppose that requires assuming that knowledge sentences do not have context-sensitive contents—hence that skeptic's denials are true at the expense of the truth of our ordinary claims to know.