Ockham's claim is simply that all our basic scientific terms, whether absolute or connotative, signify nothing but singular substances or qualities (plus some singular relations in certain exceptional theological cases).
Ive is clearly working towards a vision of a device that is simply a singular pane of glass that really is just all content.
To implement this insight, Quine simply eliminated singular terms from the language.
Is that really what Republicans across the country want from their nominee, or is South Carolina, with its history of acute racial tension and contrarianism, simply sending a singular, extreme message?
Quite simply, if the singular terms in question are directly referential (currently the most popular view of names), then a sentence containing a fictional proper name will have no real truth-conditions, hence no real truth-value, since any such term is really empty.
These are already used as the third person plural pronouns (which are coincidentally gender-nonspecific), so it may simply become a singular neuter as well.
Whereas colleagues such as Diplo, the smartest talking head contributor here, have undeniably helped reinvent pop music, Aoki has instead spent years driven simply by the singular sugar rush of becoming as outrageous, and as outrageously popular as humanly possible.
Anyone with a rudimentary grasp of Latin, he challenged, would quickly deduce that at no time did one ever address the pontiff as 'you' (i.e. in the second person singular) simply because one was never actually speaking to 'Your Holiness' alone as sole interlocutor but rather to 'all of you who are of the Petrine succession', viz.
For this is a startling exhibition - more than 40 paintings, photographs and sculptures that have only one theme, one singular ambition: simply to celebrate the glories of his garden.
In this sense, you could see them not as bizarros inflamed by a singular vision but simply as the most fervent proponents of a genetic essentialism that is fairly widely shared these days.
