Sentence examples for reference to individuals from inspiring English sources

Reference to individuals can firstly be 'generic', when no particular individual(s) is (are) singled out, as in the sentence I like dogs (generic NP underlined).

A bit like a Rorschach test, the Constitution in general seems to allow people to see what they want to see, and in this case the Supreme Court continues to see a reference to individuals that is simply not in the Second Amendment.

Here, he often reflects upon cultural and psychological phenomena in reference to individuals' organic and physiological constitutions.

And (5) can be presented without reference to individuals: diversity may be good in its own right, or may be good for nations.

Thus, while the reduplication argument makes a powerful case that there is some direct reference and hence that singular proposition are necessary for an adequate account of reference to individuals in thought and language, it does not settle the further issue of how much of our thought is direct and involves the grasping of singular propositions and what is thought by description.

The instrument addressed four stigma dimensions, all in reference to individuals with stable schizophrenia.

The catalog, a hefty collection of essays, makes scant reference to individual images.

The fine filter is most often used in reference to individual species or groups of functionally related species.

Otherwise, only two indistinct plaques make reference to the horrors that took place there, and three so-called Stolpersteine (bronze "stumbling stones") set into the ground make reference to individual Jews who were deported from the site.

Another absence: High Windows, unlike the last books, contains hardly any reference to individual women, apart from a dead prostitute of uncertain name ("Kitty or Katy"), at whose funeral in Dublin other prostitutes tenderly dance.

He was deeply opposed to any account of artistic creativeness which was couched in terms of a collective psyche rather than by reference to individual invention and discoveries which others could then adopt.