Sentence examples for utterer from inspiring English sources

Thus, 'I' is rigid: when evaluating the truth or falsity of what is said by an utterance of a sentence containing 'I' in counterfactual circumstances, it is the properties of the person whom 'I' referred to in the utterance (the actual utterer) that are relevant.

Grice's idea is that an utterer U means that p by uttering x if and only if U M-intends that p by uttering x.

Today, such words would bounce right back on the utterer.

He's also the utterer of one of the most repeated aphorisms about our technological present: "The future is already here; it's just not evenly distributed".

He declared that he tried to avoid the caricature of a cutter of ribbons and utterer of platitudes.

Such mistakes may say something about the utterer (or may not), but they almost certainly tell us nothing about the candidate.

We can see communication as a rational activity in which an utterer intends to produce certain results and audiences reason their way to those results via their recognition of the utterer's intention to produce that very result.

"Misquotation is an occupational hazard of quotation," Keyes advises, and both he and Shapiro have gone to considerable trouble to track down the original utterances that became famous quotations and their original utterers.

Similar remarks hold for us as utterers.

For example, as a result of reading the last sentence, you believe that we believe that audiences regard utterers as having the intentions specified in the account of utterers' meaning when audiences are called upon to justify the beliefs and actions they form in response to utterances.

The analysis of utterers' meaning illustrates what Grice has in mind.