What strikes me as worrisome is Ryle' tendency to use the web metaphor as a rationale for rejecting the old, Russellian conception of analysis, with its emphasis on precisely formulated logical forms, and replacing it with methodology which, in some cases, may degenerate into a recipe for generating a conceptual fog.
The structural descriptions provided by a generative grammar are comparable with, but more precisely formulated than, the analyses that result from the traditional practice of parsing sentences in terms of the parts of speech.
Nonetheless, because the laws of quantum mechanics are precisely formulated, we can predict what quantum computers will do.
Like the first edition, it focuses on the development of precisely formulated grammars whose empirical predictions can be directly tested.
The Anglo-Austrian and the Russo-Austrian conventions of 1838 and 1840, respectively, promoted free navigation along the entire river, a principle that was more precisely formulated in the Treaty of Paris of 1856, which also set up the first Danubian Commission with the aim of supervising the river as an international waterway.
The American colorist Donald Kaufman sells precisely formulated Color Concentrate pigment ($30 to $41), which can be added to a gallon of base paint.
My embarrassed but precisely formulated response — "Sorry, Sergeant, I can't ride a bike" — must have sounded like a bad joke to him.
Generative grammar, a precisely formulated set of rules whose output is all (and only) the sentences of a language i.e., of the language that it generates.
First of all, QMSL, being precisely formulated, allows to locate precisely the 'split' between micro and macro, reversible and irreversible, quantum and classical.
There are also important further differences in precisely how to formulate any given version of reasons internalism, and we have not precisely formulated any single version in this article.
