Concrete mass nouns such as beer will be paraphrased as referring, depending on context, to bottles, drops, glasses, gallons, or quantities (in Cartwright's 1979b sense) of beer.
Most pediatricians (81.2%) recommended an age for the first dental visit, and 66.3% referred depending on dental findings.
The degree to which a firm needs creativity and discipline – the elements of creative tension to which this paper refers – depends on the speed with which the industry changes.
Example 17 shows that 白花油 baihuayou 'Pak Fah Yeow', a proper name for a product with time-invariant referent, does not allow DE-insertion, while 白花的油 baihua de you 'a(n) (essential) oil made from a white flower', which refers to time-variant referent depending on which kind of flower is used to produce the (essential) oil on each occasion, must be used with 的 de 'DE' inserted.
In this respect he incorporates components of what we above called the Disquotational Theory.[14], [15] Saka's account also differs from Washington's in that he emphasizes that quotations are ambiguous (or indeterminate) and that what they refer to depends on the speaker's intentions (see Saka 1998, pp. 123 4).
Moreover, the contents of our own thoughts, and so of our very recognition of the words of others and the objects and events to which they refer, themselves depend on our sharing with others a pattern of interaction with the world.
This molecule possesses a wide range of activities, and as a result laboratories used various different names to refer to it, depending on their research interests.
Characterization refers to recording highly heritable traits, usually controlled by a single or very few genes, while evaluation refers to traits depending on several to many genes, whose expression is usually environment-dependent.
The same word or phrase can refer to more than one type of entities or does not refer to an entity depending on context (e.g., "TNF alpha" can refer to a protein or DNA).
The date refers to the presidential inauguration that, depending on one's point of view, is seen as Mr. Aristide's appointment with destiny or infamy.
