Sentence examples for singular thought from inspiring English sources

Plenty of daffy names – Slean, Barghest, Hrothgar Healfdene also known as Thane of Heorot – but, and now here's a singular thought, I truly don't care!

A case in point is their views of singular thought.

Nor can one entertain a genuine singular thought about it.

It also, as Unger noted, creates difficulties for many views about singular thought and talk.

On some views, the object of the singular thought is even part of it.

Unlike Russell himself, neo-Russellians maintain that singular thought is possible even for entities for which misidentification is possible.

On the orthodox view, part of the importance of true singular thoughts for a clarification of intentionality lies in the fact that some true singular thoughts are about concrete perceptible objects.

Singular thoughts about concrete perceptible objects may seem simpler and more primitive than either general ones or thoughts about abstract entities.

According to Russell, most thoughts that seem prima facie to be about concrete individuals are in fact not singular thoughts but generally quantified propositions.

Much of the impetus for the theory of direct reference came from the implications of the semantics of modal logic for the intentionality of singular thoughts and beliefs.

Section 2 ended on the question: how can we reconcile the fact that singular thoughts are local mental phenomena with the relational character of their intentionality?