Sentence examples for ordinary statements from inspiring English sources

With every stop on the journey, Christensen adopts this strategy, backgrounding plot and character elements in favor of ordinary statements we're meant to take as plain truth.

These properties are not enough to make true ordinary statements like 'every dog in my house is asleep'.

"Leibniz sometimes suggests that our ordinary statements about causal interaction can be understood in such a way that they come out true" (Jolley, 595).

(1918, 223) You have to say, in other words, that many ordinary statements using special NPs or nominals for propositions can be true (these include nominal relative clauses, quantifiers, and nominal complements of the form 'the proposition that p').

Other critics (Kania 2005, Stecker 2005) believe Davies provides insufficient grounds for the adoption of a highly revisionary ontological doctrine that gives the lie to countless ordinary statements about works of art, such as "the Mona Lisa can be seen at Le Louvre".

His latest effort, TOP Posters, is a line of super-straightforward wall posters that pair excessively ordinary statements like "Food: Yes!" "Water is cool!" and "Money: It Can Be Yours," with stock photos worthy of the DISImages library.

Russell was explicit that the goal of analysis is not to unpack what is psychologically intended by an ordinary statement such as the previous example, nor what a person would be thinking when he or she utters it.

Indeed, it is not immediately clear what it would be to treat a conditional, construed according to Supp, as an assumption: to assume something, as ordinarily understood, is to assume that it is true; and conditionals are not being construed as ordinary statement of fact.

These are no ordinary identity statements.

Rather, at least some ordinary modal statements with iterated modal operators will not have truth conditions expressible solely in terms of worlds and propositions in which no such modal operators occur.

Nevertheless, Jolley continues, "When Leibniz simply denies the existence of causal interaction between created substances, he tends to accept the influx analysis; he does not look around for a better analysis that would preserve the truth of our ordinary causal statements" (Jolley, 595).