Sentence examples for semantic arguments from inspiring English sources

Semantic arguments become vigorous, charades-like performances that are stretched out for too long.

This multiagent calculus yields syntactic proofs of some type abstraction properties that traditionally require semantic arguments.

Rather than wade through long philosophical and semantic arguments (theirs are brief and to the point), Allwood et al. wade through the evidence.

Granted, lawyers with the C.I.A. and the Administrations of George W. Bush and Barack Obama had drawn up semantic arguments carefully delineating the difference between a targeted killing and an assassination.

The judge's comments came at the end of an unusually testy 90-minute procedural hearing, in which both sides haggled over, and were frequently confused by, all sorts of legal and semantic arguments.

To the Editor: As breast cancer continues to pose a major health risk for women, we can ill afford to engage in semantic arguments about what we should call cancer.

Although wo in 58 and ta in 59 both correspond to the NP2 in 60 and can both be understood as a semantic argument of the corresponding main predicate, ta in 59 semantically is an Agent argument of zou 'to walk' and wo in 58 can be interpreted as the Patient argument of qi 'to annoy'.

This is an essentially semantic argument.

The consequences of this semantic argument could be devastating.

It all sounds like a purely semantic argument, and maybe it is.

He liked the idea that he had started a semantic argument.