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An explication aims to respect some central uses of a term but is stipulative on others.

For, if Quine (1960) is right about the psychology of language use, then there may be no sufficiently local explanatorily basic facts on which all other uses of a term depend.

The second idea the primacy of the sentential has its roots in the thought that the fundamental uses of a term are in assertion and argument: if we understand the use of a defined term in assertion and argument then we fully grasp the term.

Uses of a term involved in the expression of belief, either in thought or talk, will likely be explained by the same processes of confirmation that Quine argued were dependent on the character of one's belief system as a whole, and not upon some local feature of that system in the way that an "analytic" claim would have to be (cf. Gibbard 2008).

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Style Preferences: Indicate a new name by the use of a term such as "sp. nov.," "gen. nov.," "fam.

Now his use of a term seen as a slur seemed to confirm the suspicions of those willing to believe that he was a racist.

The cast's numbingly frequent use of a term for Italian-Americans that many consider offensive hasn't helped.

Nominative use occurs when use of a term is necessary for purposes of identifying another producer's product, not the user's own product.

This is one of the few films that could justify use of a term that should never be used in describing a movie -- a thrill ride -- since it is, after all, based on one.

"The problem with neo-liberalism," Iglesias begins, unabashed in his use of a term that most politicians still avoid for fear of sounding like an anarchist, "is that it constructs realities that are almost immovable".

Trump called the notion that year-round sales have a negative effect — the EPA previously cited smog concerns — a "misnomer," which is actually a misnomer, meaning an inaccurate use of a term.

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