Sentence examples for pure sentence from inspiring English sources

Unlike atomic sentences, the mixing here takes place at the sentential rather than sub-sentential level: (43) is a conjunction, which mixes the pure sentence '7 + 5 = 12' with the pure sentence 'killing innocent people is wrong'.

For pure sentence-by-sentence writing, both All That Is by James Salter (Picador) and The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis (Penguin) constantly hit the mark with every sparing word and have a style all of their own.

Unlike (39), the paraphrased (40) appears to be a pure atomic sentence belonging to the domain of morals.

How exactly acceptance should be defined is a matter of some controversy, but one obvious way to proceed here is to claim that fictionalists accept a pure mathematical sentence S if and only if they believe that S is true in the story of mathematics.

(It is worth noting that Yablo also seems to think that, at least sometimes, pure mathematical sentences have real contents i.e., really say things that are nominalistic and true.

Whatever Yablo's view is, though, it's important to note that views of this general kind i.e., views that take pure mathematical sentences to have real contents, or really say things, that are nominalistic and true are not versions of fictionalism at all, as that view has been defined here.

The sentence "Pure electric cars have a battery that lasts only as long as the equivalent of 6-7 litres of petrol, which means recharging every hour or so" has been deleted because there are electric cars that have a range of between 100 and 200 miles.

Call a sentence pure if it is either positive or negative.

Speaking about Dippolito's crimes, Palm Beach County Judge Jeffrey Colbath called her "pure evil" and sentenced her to 20 years in prison.

Yablo thinks that something like this is true in connection with typical utterances of (pure and mixed) mathematical sentences, e.g., sentences like '3 is prime' and 'The number of Martian moons is 2.' So Yablo is certainly proposing a hermeneutic nominalist view, but it's not clear that his view is best thought of as a kind of hermeneutic fictionalism.

The last part of this sentence was pure modesty: Mr. Harold, 72, a former spokesman for the Transit Authority and the man acknowledged to be the father of the museum, remembers almost everything correctly.