Sentence examples for partial definition from inspiring English sources

But this no longer has the character of even a partial definition but instead that of an empirical law.

Both presumably; but this could not be true on the Via Negativa construed as a definition of what a physical property is, even a partial definition.

Schwanenflugel et al. (1997) prepared five options in one item: a correct definition, a partial definition, two incorrect definitions, and a 'don't know' option.

One might try to meet this objection by revising the Via Negativa so that what is intended is only a partial definition along these lines: F is a physical property only if F is non-mental.

Those who selected an option with a partial definition were regarded as having only partial knowledge, while those who selected an option with a correct definition were considered to have a more refined vocabulary knowledge.

Some studies used both a narrow and a broad or partial definition of AN, including DSM-IV AN with or without amenorrhea and ICD-10 atypical AN [ 14– 16].

Partial definitions, for example, fall outside the scheme; another example is provided by definitions of logical constants in terms of introduction and elimination rules governing them.

In the 1936 37 article, "Testability and Meaning" Carnap called the partial definitions themselves "reduction sentences" and the system of definitions of theoretical terms, both partial and complete, as a reduction of the theoretical terms to the observational basis.

These disposition terms were thought to be linked to observation statements by a variety of reduction postulates or longer reduction chains, all of which provided only partial definitions (despite their name they provided no eliminative reductions).

Indeed, Gupta and Belnap (1993) take up a suggestion from Tarski (1944), that the instances of the T-schema can be seen as partial definitions of truth; presumably with all the instances together, for the right language or family of languages constituting a complete definition.

These broad or partial definitions of AN are in line with the proposed DSM-5-criteria for AN and will be referred to as 'broad AN' throughout this review [ 9].