Sentence examples for that demonstrative from inspiring English sources

"As a species, we are just not that demonstrative," said David Granger, editor in chief of Esquire.

Hume thinks it is evident that demonstrative reasoning can't bridge the gap between (1) and (2).

So far we have argued that demonstrative identification is not reducible to descriptive identification.

Strawson used the argument to support the related thesis that demonstrative identification is fundamental to our ability to identify and hence refer to, in speech and thought, individuals.

Marga Reimer (1991a, 199b) argues that demonstrative utterances can refer to objects that are not the targets of the speaker's directing intentions, contrary to what she takes Kaplan (1989b) to be arguing.

He argues that the central reason perception must be nonconceptual is that the experience of a property depends on the situation in which it is perceived and depends on the object which it characterizes in a way that demonstrative concepts do not.

One prima facie problem for demonstration-theories is that demonstratives sometimes refer in contexts in which the speaker does not produce a pointing gesture.

(He notes (2003: 227) that demonstratives are naturally used to express direct phenomenal concepts (e.g., "I am experiencing this quality"), and that there may be a sense in which a direct phenomenal concept is a "demonstrative" concept, but he avoids such a label at least in part because of the danger of confusing direct phenomenal concepts with demonstrative ones as usually understood).

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.

Priscian's reference to intellectual demonstration was found useful, and the thought that a demonstrative could refer either to something absent or to something spiritual was supplemented by a further kind of intellectual demonstration in which the thing actually pointed to is not numerically identical to the thing signified and to which the predicate applies.

It went from killings that were demonstrative, to those where the KGB's fingerprints were nowhere to be found, however hard you looked.