Sentence examples for use ordinary language from inspiring English sources

The cogency of the analysis of historical narrative was enhanced by emphasizing that historians use ordinary language.

Wittgenstein at this point reminds the interlocutor that we already use ordinary language for that.

L. 10.75 6); that language is learnt in context (Lucretius 5.1028ff); and that linguistic expressions of natural languages are clearer and more conspicuous than their definitions; even that definitions would destroy their conspicuousness (Usener 258, 243); and that philosophers hence should use ordinary language rather than introduce technical expressions (Epicurus On Nature 28).

Propagandists have the speaker use ordinary language and mannerisms to reach the audience and identify with their point of view.

When she made a public plea for greater environmental protection at this year's parliamentary consultative committee, she was accused of hypocrisy, because she wore animal fur, and childishness, because she used ordinary language rather than convoluted bureaucratic terminology.

For this reason, many library systems, particularly those that use computerized information retrieval techniques, combine controlled vocabulary such as subject headings with free vocabulary: descriptions of the topic of books or other materials using ordinary language.

Gilbert Ryle, Moore's successor as editor of a leading journal, Mind, was among the most prominent of those analysts who were regarded as using ordinary language as a philosophical tool.

Journalistic criticism by contrast, "tends to be unconcerned with the larger generalities that are implicit in and sustain the art it addresses -- in order to preserve access to the particulars of the art for the ordinary public that uses ordinary language".

For a time, under the influence of Ludwig Wittgenstein, he adopted a pluralist view of philosophy itself and came to view most philosophical problems as nothing more than conceptual or linguistic confusions created by philosophers by using ordinary language out of its original context.

As though no human using ordinary language could truly speak of my mother's disappearance, no matter how concretely and obviously she is disappearing.

In giving the truth conditions for the quantifiers of first-order logic, Quine explicitly makes use of ordinary language quantifiers (see, for example, Quine 1970).