Sentence examples for rigid terms from inspiring English sources

Under the rigid terms of the 1996 act, that made him deportable -- without a chance of mercy.

The meeting will be conducted under rigid terms struck by Sunrise and a shareholder, the investment company Millenco.

But firms' and families' financial assets are not bound by such rigid terms: deposits can be withdrawn with little notice, bonds and equity can be sold quickly if cash is needed or if investment tastes change.

It was noted that for rigid terms the de re/de dicto distinction collapses.

Natural kind terms like 'water' and 'gold' can also be regarded as rigid terms, as they single out the same kinds in every possible world.

Some philosophers seem to think that rigid terms are just those coined in accordance with a baptism like the above.[3] But causal grounding is not closely tied to rigidity.

A temporally rigid term refers to a being at all parts of its temporal career.

We may assume that what a rigid term a denotes at a possible world (or moment of time) w need not exist in w.

Kerner pointed out that, because "fetish" is a pretty rigid term that implies someone can only get aroused one way, we can't be sure if the men at the gym have an actual fetish or just a "strong interest".

One approach to dealing with non-rigid terms is to employ Russell's theory of descriptions.

The paradigmatic examples of non-rigid terms are descriptions that are satisfied by different objects in different possible worlds.