Sentence examples for xyz from inspiring English sources

Oscar would still be thinking about water, and would probably misidentify XYZ as water; Twin Oscar would still be thinking about XYZ, and would probably misidentify water as XYZ.

Suppose Lake Superior is full of XYZ.

Since (W†) is judged after the slow switch, the initial use of 'water' refers to XYZ.

We can, it is argued, agree that "water" and WATER can refer to H2O exclusively, even if all of the members of the relevant community would classify XYZ as water were they to find some, given their ignorance of water's chemical composition.

To assign epistemic intensions to expressions, we must evaluate conditionals like 'if the actual world is like Twin Earth, then water = XYZ'.

Similarly, if I consider the hypothesis that a scenario in which the oceans and lakes contain XYZ is actual, I will still conclude that the lakes contain water, since in Twin Earth scenarios my water-thoughts are about XYZ.

For instance, if we were to accept as actual a scenario in which the liquid that falls from the skies and fills the lakes is XYZ, we would accept as true the thought that water is XYZ.

A narrow content is supposed to be something that Oscar and Twin Oscar share, and by virtue of which Oscar believes that water is wet and Twin Oscar believes that XYZ is wet.

The question is whether an individual with a belief about water on earth, where water is made up of H2O, has the same belief as an individual with a belief about water in a parallel universe, where water has the same appearance and behavior, but happens to be made up of XYZ.

They also assume that Twin Oscar's interactions with XYZ are insufficient.

The externalist intuition is that, even if these "twins" are unschooled in chemistry, Oscar uses 'water' to refer to H2O yet Twin Oscar uses 'water' to refer to XYZ.