Sentence examples for what it applies from inspiring English sources

Suppose that the meaning of an expression is determined not only by what it applies to in the actual world but also by what it would apply to in different "possible worlds".

The notion of an original being, totally self-contained and totally self-intelligible, may not itself be coherent, as the 18th-century British philosopher David Hume and others have argued; alternatively, there may be special difficulties in saying to what it applies.

Hugon (2011) gives Dharmakīrti's response to that charge, which consists essentially of a tu quoque argument one needs to understand what a term excludes as much as what it applies to.

Moreover, the Commission argues that it will exercise judgment in what it applies the new rules to or not, but changing definitions does not turn magically make the Internet into something it is not – a telephone network.

This little add-on is far more detailed, giving such information as the manufacturer of the application that is running, what it applies to, the memory load, and much more.

"There has not been much illumination of that as to what it meant and what it applied to," a senior adviser to Mr. Rumsfeld said of the $45 billion campaign proposal.

(What's Game Days? A chance to save up to 50percentt off the price of new video games, that's what. It applies both online and in-store).

Perhaps unicorn is meaningful because of what it would apply to in certain circumstances, though in actuality it does not apply to anything.

The company stressed that with the transition money the actual reduction in money would be closer to 13% and in line with what it had applied for.

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Writers disagree how best to define and classify atheism, contesting what supernatural entities it applies to, whether it is an assertion in its own right or merely the absence of one, and whether it requires a conscious, explicit rejection.