Declaring all such external existential questions devoid of cognitive content, Carnap now feels emboldened to dismiss both realism that asserts the ontological reality of abstract entities and nominalism that asserts their irreality as "pseudo-statements if they claim to be theoretical statements" (ibid).
Should the orator be a small child, a man of ill-repute, or one supposed to be hostile to the audience or should the question be devoid of interest for the audience, there is little chance that the orator will be allowed to speak or that he will be listened to.
That is, the first question was devoid of any case-specific contextual details.
She is full of questions and devoid of answers, much like her creator says she was as she waded through her 20s.
This proved even more complex, in the recognition that emotional inventories or lists of questions are usually devoid of context and often separated from their broader social meaning.
Our findings fully support prior work that has found evidence supporting the theory that of the two types of information retrieval questions, recognition questions are of lesser complexity and more likely to trigger memory as the information is provided as a clue within the question itself, whereas in recall questions the subject must, devoid of clues, independently retrieve 'the memory' [ 35].
At least that's the impression she gave with her Tory-tastic ranting about drugs on Question Time – a performance devoid of compassion or insight, in which she toed the party line so vigorously, you'd think she was afraid she might lose control and attempt to snort it.
While many of the critical plot points are given answers, Snicket explains that no story can be fully devoid of questions as every story is intertwined with numerous others and every character's history is shared in a great web of mysteries and unfortunate events that make up the world's legacy, making it impossible for anyone to know all the answers to every question.
Crucially, too, both the question and the answer were devoid of any timeframe – and timing in the matter of Assad's future is all.
Photograph: Guardian "How many Combermererians have played test cricket for England," writes Harry Husband devoid of either question mark or even a hint of what the hell a Combermererian is.
