Aquinas seized on Priscian's further claim that demonstratives signify substance without quality, and argued that 'this' refers to something indeterminate which is first qualified by the properties of bread and then by the properties of Christ's body.
Contextualist theories share with a number of approaches we have already seen the idea that there is something indeterminate or semantically not well-formed about our Liar sentence L. But, contextualist views give a special role to issues of 'revenge' and lack of expressive power.
At the end there was a short film of something entirely indeterminate that seemed to involve water.
As Mr. Crutchley speaks, he moves between man and beast and something more indeterminate; his character is called The Other, and he is a compelling figure in his long coat and ankle shackle.
She was exploring the idea of a movie with no plot, something nonlinear and indeterminate — a "Zeitgeist" film.
Of course, the notion of "mind-independence" is problematically indeterminate: Something may be mind-independent in one sense and mind-dependent in another.
A vague notion of being reserved for something else, something quite indeterminate, which, if it were named, would cause people to break out laughing".
The 'pure object' is the substratum for the generic and specific features of the object, but the subject is not distinctly aware of any of these and simply cognizes the object as an indeterminate particular, as "this" or "something".
In that case, the intuition that there is exactly one cloud in the sky, but it is indeterminate just which object it is, is something to be explained, not something that has to be proven.
Straddling an indeterminate space between speculative cryptozoology and something kinda, sorta, half-reputable, her book Mystery Big Cats confronts the lack of physical evidence for big felines living in the British countryside head on.
Yablo (1999), though no defender of the method of paraphrase, sees paraphrase in a somewhat different light: it is not that the original is indeterminate and needs to be replaced by something more precise, but that the original is metaphorical and needs to be replaced by something that expresses its literal content.
