Sentence examples for relevant utterance from inspiring English sources

And if they (we) read what is conveyed by the relevant utterance onto the sentence uttered, the knowledge denial will strike them (us) as expressing a truth.

2. The proposition expressed by the relevant utterance of the sentence, 'The coin lands heads' does exist even when the coin doesn't land heads.

And in the case of disquotational reports using 'left', one might think that examples like the above show that the relevant contextual parameter is sometimes not the orientation of the speaker, but rather the orientation of the subject of the ascription at the time of the relevant utterance.

A peculiarity of certain external and non-self-directable acts is that the relevant utterance must of necessity be not only directed toward a certain subject but also registered or grasped by this subject in a further act: a command must be received and understood by those to whom it is addressed (something which does not apply, for example, to an act of blessing or cursing).

As the language game, including its actions, materials, and relevant utterances, approximates real language interaction, the principle of communicative and behavioural relevance is also fulfilled.

After all, they merely involve making explicit what are, according to EC, the propositions expressed by the relevant utterances.

If Lewis is correct though in supposing that the relevant utterances are merely "overt, explicit" statements of fallibilism (ibid., 550), their seeming incoherence suggests that, contrary to our everyday epistemic pretensions, "knowledge must be by definition infallible" after all (ibid., 549).

What the Naive Russellian needs is a notion of a pragmatic implicature that does not rely upon calculability and does not require the propositions semantically encoded by the relevant utterances to play a role in the conscious psychological lives of the participants of the conversation.

Suprasegmental observations encompass information about the pitch of the speech signal, information about the intensity of the uttered utterance and information about the duration of the relevant segment.

One limitation of a purely performative account of consent is that it does not take into account the context in which the relevant behavior or utterance occurs.

Just as "Bert is carrying a gun" can be made true, in the pretense relevant to this utterance, by Bert's holding a twig, so, on this view on metaphor, can Romeo's "Juliet is the sun" be made true by features of Juliet and of the relation between Romeo and Juliet, given the pretense that Romeo's utterance makes relevant.