Sentence examples for ordinary usage of from inspiring English sources

The ordinary usage of the term is clearly less wide.

So perhaps '∀x(Sx → Px)' does fail to do complete justice to ordinary usage of 'Every S is P', but this is not a problem with the logic.

Beyond the ordinary usage of the sign, derivable from its institution, the speaker always has the liberty to use it in the translated way, the variation being in the majority of cases explainable and for this reason comprehensible by the listener.

Our concepts, after all, have been developed to deal with the sorts of contingencies that normally arise, and it may sometimes be possible to invent scenarios (or even to discover them empirically) that are not provided for in our ordinary usage of a concept.

This study does not support the hypothesis that ordinary usage of common cosmetics as body lotions, skin creams, and ointments, often containing mineral oil, increase the risk for RA in the population in general.

This study does not support the hypothesis that ordinary usage of body lotions, skin creams or ointments, often containing mineral oil, increases the risk of RA in the population in general.

Under more ordinary usage — each of the sixty-seven bulbs in a typical American household is turned on for an average of only 1.6 hours daily — it would, in theory, at least, stay bright for more than forty-two years.

The answer lies in too ready an acceptance of ordinary usage, which permits a fairly wide-ranging application of many of the virtue terms, combined, perhaps, with a modern readiness to suppose that the virtuous agent is motivated by emotion or inclination, not by rational choice.

But in ordinary usage, as well as the usage of most philosophers of art, the work of art is identified with the physical artifact, as it exists in the physical medium.

Ordinary usage hides a battery of different but related concepts of memory, which are now investigated by philosophers and psychologists alike, attending to conceptual distinctions and subjective experience in conjunction with functional and empirical concerns about the nature and the basis of memory processes and systems.

The determination of "ordinary usage" is left to the courts.