Sentence examples for predicate natural from inspiring English sources

Or, as with the more sophisticated versions of non-cognitivism, one can allow them to predicate natural properties and argue that the appearance that they do something other than this is due to the additional expressive component in their meaning.

The truth predicates in natural languages do not come with any ouvert type restriction.

Simple predicative utterances employing the so-called thick moral terms such as 'brave' and 'honest' can then be thought of as performing this same speech act while at the same time predicating the natural property (say fearlessness in the case of bravery) which common usage of the term seems to track.

If there is an epidemiological explanation, perhaps, an effect predicated on natural biological trends involving specific MRSA strains is a matter of great interest [ 11, 22, 23].

It is also very important to take the time to know as much about the breed which predicates what natural behaviors he will grow into as an adult.

The obvious route to an analogy between kind terms and singular direct reference is to focus not on natural kind predicates but on singular natural kind terms (cf. first paragraph of Section 3 above).

Therefore typed theories of truth (axiomatic as well as semantic theories) have been thought to be inadequate for analysing the truth predicate of natural language, although recently hierarchical theories have been advocated by Glanzberg (forthcoming) and others.

Similar to formal specifications (e.g., predicate calculus) natural language uses abstractions, i.e., concepts.

Once translated from natural language to predicate logic, the next step is to validate consistency using a theorem prover.

This suggests the following proposal: Property F counts as more natural than property G just in case some predicate expressing F can be defined, in terms of predicates expressing perfectly natural properties, more simply than can any predicate expressing G.

(One difference between Putnam and Kripke is that while Putnam tends to focus on the natural kind predicates, Kripke's arguments are centered primarily on the singular natural kind terms).