Sentence examples for portion of ordinary from inspiring English sources

So, whoever turns out to be right, the contextualist or the 'invariantist', a substantial portion of ordinary speakers are afflicted by "semantic blindness" (Hawthorne 2004, 107).

But it is crucial to Quine's project that some portion of ordinary language can be used for ontologically serious discourse, and that when so used, quantification holds the key to ontological commitment.

The problem that needs to be addressed by the Quinean is then: how to recognize which quantifiers, or which uses of quantifiers, make up this ontologically serious portion of ordinary language.

There must, then, be some portion of ordinary language that can do all the work, vis-à-vis ontological commitment, that the first-order language was introduced to do.[39] This doesn't eliminate the need to seek paraphrases of ordinary language theories (see §4.2 below).

But such theories need not be paraphrased into the language of first-order predicate logic; it is enough if they are paraphrased into that regimented portion of ordinary language that can be counted on, in appropriate contexts, to be ontologically serious.

This portion of ordinary language will have to undergo some regimentation if it is to have the full expressive power of first-order logic: there will need to be indefinitely many pronouns to serve as bound variables and sufficient punctuation to disambiguate structure.

One approach to increasing the sustainability of concrete construction is to replace a significant portion of the ordinary portland cement (OPC) with a supplementary cementitious material, such as fly ash.

Though he shared substance addictions with Martin and Janis Joplin and sexual compulsions with Cooke, Joplin and Sylvester, and though he had enough money once the Clash started raking it in, he seems to have achieved a fair portion of the ordinary blokedom toward which his inchoate but sincere and inquisitive radicalism impelled him.

Two types were continuations of earlier practice: the tenor mass, in which the same cantus firmus served for all five portions of the Ordinary of the mass, and the plainsong mass, in which the cantus firmus (usually a corresponding section of plainsong) differed for each portion.

Of course, there's also the issue that has plagued the upper classes for centuries: how to deal with "the Servant Problem". For the most part, the very wealthy do not want to shop for and cook their own food, serve their meals, wash their dishes, care for their children, clean their homes, and engage in the many other tasks that consume large portions of the lives of ordinary people.

The remaining portion of the universe consists of ordinary matter and dark matter.