Sentence examples for referent in from inspiring English sources

The concepts have the same reference, but they present the referent in different ways and thus the two thoughts can play different roles in rationalizing explanation.

But it seems intuitively implausible to suppose that the name 'Aristotle' — as we in fact use that name in the actual world — could be used to refer to anyone other than its referent in the actual world, namely Aristotle.

The Birkenstock is a handy referent in a world increasingly prone to thinking about shoes as an infallible system of social and ideological classification.

The "whole point", they said, is that their "sculptures" only "have themselves as a referent in the world".

It is not moral or tragic, or a mournful or a pained exclamation, or a ghastly tune or a macabre dance with or without irony, nor do the feelings put in motion by music have any referent in the ideas or political persuasions of composers or listeners.

One might go farther and argue not only that the superhero costume has (and needs) no referent in the world of textiles and latex but also that, even within its own proper comic-book context, it can be said not to exist, not to want to exist — can be said to advertise, even to revel in, its own notional status.

More major breaks in the episodic structure of a discourse/narrative, often corresponding with paragraph breaks in writing, are described as resulting in the use of repeated full NPs to refer back to topical referents in a story line.

Primary intelligibles are names that refer to essences possessing concrete referents in the world such as 'humanity'humanity

We also developed a method to define visual referents in the presentation slides that are pointed and referred by meeting participants.

(ii) Is there a single mechanism of reference common to all referring terms, or do different sorts terms attach to their referents in virtue of different sorts of things?

Nicolas proposes that their subjects, which are headed by abstract mass nouns, do refer (or make as if to refer) to instances of properties or relations, thereby introducing these as referents in the discourse (Moltmann 2007 proposes something similar).