Sentence examples for successfully referring from inspiring English sources

There are two common (not necessarily exclusive) responses to this: (I) Develop an account of reference according to which the abandoned theoretical terms are regarded as successfully referring after all.

Juha Saatsi (2005) denies premise (a) and claims that there can be approximate truth of the causal roles postulated by a scientific theory without its central terms necessarily successfully referring (see also Chakravartty, 1998).

She earns $200 to $300 for each family that signs up with the agency, which means she must successfully refer about 300 families a year to earn the $70,000 that she says she needs.

Users who successfully referred applicants were given monetary bonuses and "karma points".

Nor does he deny that such thoughts (and the utterances that express them) successfully refer.

A secretary who successfully refers a new home mortgage customer gets a $100 bonus.

But that's just a drop in the bucket if they successfully refer someone to a clinic, earning ten or twenty grand.

Crucially, however, because the reference relation is external, competent users of a term can be radically mistaken about what the term refers to and still successfully refer.

Given that mathematical objects exist and are successfully referred to by our scientific theories, it is not surprising that such theories are successful.

As with the case of "water" before modern chemistry, the conception widely associated with "race" (viz. that it is a biological kind) is wrong, but the term successfully refers all the same.

12), according to which one can successfully refer to an entity despite significant or even radical changes in theoretical descriptions of its properties; this allows for stability of epistemic commitment when theories change over time.