Sentence examples for thing referred from inspiring English sources

Kripke used a large battery of arguments to suggest that Russell's account of logically proper names should be extended to cover ordinary names, with the direct linkage in their case consisting of a causal chain between the name and the thing referred to.

Investigators alleged that "thing" referred to a list of money transfers to the Taliban, although the F.B.I. had taped a phone call explaining that it was a list of nursing schools for a friend hoping to study in the U.S. To argue that Irfan took steps to "conceal" money transfers, a prosecutor had said that they were "structured to be just under one thousand dollars to avoid suspicion".

If, then, we follow Gottlob Frege (1977) in classifying all objects as being the sort of thing referred to by singular terms, and all properties as the sort of thing referred to by predicates, then types would be objects.

According to the Parisian School, the term 'he' refers to the thing referred to by the term 'Antichrist'.

In the process of cooperative action through language the thing referred to gains both meaning and heightened potential.

As an object or what is real or factual, shí contrasts not with "subject" or "subjective," but with xu (empty, hollow, insubstantial, indeterminate) or with ming (name), the linguistic label for the thing referred to.

Well, for one thing, referring to the Forms, particularly with a capital "F", is pretty misleading, though it is conventional.

Mo'Nique has called her au naturel legs "a black woman's thing," referring to some African-American women who used to be non-shavers.

His lawyer, Mr. Leff, said, "I think this is an interpretive thing," referring to the government's charges, adding, "Everything was done correctly".

"My mom sort of put her into this little acting thing" — referring to a community playhouse — "and they said, 'Oh, you should go to L.A. or New York and find an agent.' " The family was living in Conyers, Ga.

If you really want to impress an Irish person that you're down with this whole Christmas thing, refer to the day after Christmas as St Stephen's day, not Boxing Day.