Sentence examples for satisfies this description from inspiring English sources

(It is also harder to imagine a nonproblematic case where the agent is confused about whether or not the day referred to by her use of 'today' satisfies this description).

But there are conceptions of certain abstract objects (notably, sets of spatiotemporally located objects (Maddy 1980) and physical universals (Armstrong 1986b)) that arguably satisfy this description as well.

Reductive theories of what it is to be a value satisfy this description, and other kinds of theory may do so, as well.

However, his sketches of terminations within motor cortex show several connections that appear to satisfy this description, again as listed in Fig.  5.

Surely we could issue a call for candidates to satisfy this job description: a cheap stove suitable for indoor cooking in Third World countries, with few or no noxious fume emissions.

If the categorical item is an accident, it satisfies the description of an accident as 'being through another;' if we are dealing with substance, then the item we are considering satisfies the description of substance as 'being in itself'.

On the other hand, we may introduce a term with the stipulation that it is to be a rigid designator referring to whatever object actually satisfies the description.

It should be noted that the utility in (8) is selected as such because it satisfies the description presented above and integrates the characteristics of Hetnets.

Implicit in Mill and explicit in Frege is the claim that these descriptions are constitutive of the meaning of the term in the following way: someone who understands the term adequately will be in a position to grasp a priori that something falls under the kind term if and only if it satisfies that description.

According to descriptive theories, a proper name refers to the individual who satisfies the descriptions most associated with that name.

Ayer buttressed this thought by suggesting that the descriptions securing the referent of the term "Caesar" would normally make it logically inconsistent that the satisfier of the descriptions be a tortoise, but that this did not establish de re necessities; it does not follow that the Caesar in question necessarily satisfies the descriptions associated with the use of the name.