Sentence examples for under descriptions from inspiring English sources

For largely independent reasons, Fodor (1975) suggested that if images have a function in cognition, it must be as what he called images under descriptions.

For Russell, sense data are the direct objects of thought in terms of which we think about extra-mental reality under descriptions relating, typically causally, those bits of reality to the directly referred to sense data.

Indeed, there is good evidence that Russell thought that ordinary public language names have as their sole semantic value their referents and hence that simple sentences containing them express singular propositions, but that most of us at least cannot entertain those propositions and can only think about them under descriptions.

If a proposition (or sentence, statement) for which we claim truth is indeed true, it is so because it accurately refers to existing objects, or accurately represents actual states of affairs albeit objects and states of affairs about which we can state facts only under descriptions that depend on our linguistic resources.

We emphasize that vague taxonomic (under-) descriptions and semantic tradition, with morphospecies concepts often only referring to a few specimens, have widely neglected aspects such as intraspecific shell variability.

Under "description," the tax assessor wrote "steel," and gave the owner's name as Paul Gilmore.

The same goes for much of what is written under: "Description".

And 'features' are properties of the unit under description, i.e., the sys-net's point of origin.

A Middle Cambrian representative of the minute tardigrades is currently under description; it possibly represents the adelphotaxon of extant Tardigrada.

Here, the researcher deploys attested cross-linguistic tendencies in language as a guide to the analysis and interpretation of the language or languages under description.

Description is used principally to indicate that something is a statement of fact, for example in 他生病 V1)住院(V2) tā shēngbìng zhùyuàn 'he was sick and stayed in the hospital', a cause-result relation under description is revealed between V1 and V2.