Sentence examples for referent on from inspiring English sources

Nevertheless, the truth-value of the sentence itself will not depend upon the properties of the speaker's referent, but on those of the semantic referent: on those of the description's denotation, should there be one.

This definition can pin a referent on 'Charlie' even if there are many insects on the branch.

This portion can serve as a point of evaluation for the expressions in an ostensive definition.[2] Consequently, the definition can with the aid of experience pin a referent on the defined term when without this aid it would fail to do so.

The relationship between a symbol and its referent on the other hand is truly arbitrary, in that there is no physical resemblance or participation between the two.

Using multinomial logistic regression models, we regressed confirmed case status (asthma only, COPD only, both, or neither, with neither as the referent) on the claims definitions for these conditions, plus the covariates with product terms for each covariate and the claims definitions.

For proponents of this view, concepts mediate between thought and language, on the one hand, and referents, on the other.

This study investigated the influence of user factors and symbol referents on public symbol design among older people, using the stereotype production method for collecting user ideas during the symbol design process.

The referent of 'I' depends on who utters or thinks it; the referent of 'now' depends on the time at which it is uttered or thought.

It isn't just that this test gives the right result in many cases; it's also that the test fits nicely with the plausible view that an utterance of a sentence of the form 'A said that S' in a context C is true iff the content of S in C is the same as the content of what the referent of 'A' said (on the relevant occasion).

In (36a) the presupposition triggered by "the person" clearly requires a salient discourse referent to hook on to; the sentence would be infelicitous when uttered out of the blue.

For each patient, data were collected by the referent rheumatologist on a standardised case-report form available on the CRI website [ 31].