Sentence examples for representational language from inspiring English sources

So there's a very specific representational language that becomes important.

Honeybees are the only animals besides humans known to have a representational language: they convey to one another the location of food by dancing.

It uses a representational language, Intensional Logic, but Montague (1970) showed that this use of a higher-order logical representation language was just a convenience, and completely dispensible.

The informational content of p is not determined a priori, through a calculus of possible states allowed by a representational language, but in terms of factual content that p carries with respect to a given situation.

First, focusing on Nickel's phrase "see as prominent," s/he could claim that a distance illusion is created, so that the "farther away" relation is represented; or, noting that the preposition "as" seems already to be representational language, s/he could appropriate Nickel's own term "prominent" as designating a property and just leave it unexplicated.

Abstract and representational languages both serve as potential frameworks for entering into Tumbledneath's layered meaning.

Hence the drive toward "realism" contingent upon the representational aspects of language, dependent on the fantasy that the language is as stable as the society, or at least it ought to be as stable as the society.

One is contentedly earthbound, while the other mingles in a Milky Way where morality is not a matter of proper dates and chronology but of representational accuracy, context, language.

The withdrawal of the self from itself proceeds from the reflexivity of representational practices of language.

Price describes the project as a "linguistic retooling of metaphysics" (Price 2011, p. 18) and the attempt specifically to avoid Mackie's "placement" issue which arises from an obsession with the representational aspect of language (although Mackie himself regarded this with Anderson as an ontological issue – see section 5.4 below).

The Mohists applied a pragmatic, non-representational theory of language and knowledge and developed a rudimentary theory of analogical argumentation.