Sentences with phrase «in ordinary language»

In the ordinary language of educated people logos might mean speech, narrative, pronouncement, report, teaching, call, sense.

He did recognize the active function of the mind in moral conduct and in the arts, but in the domain of mathematics and the sciences, and even in ordinary language, his view of the forms of intuition and the «categories» of understanding as universal a priori structures was too rigid.

The Christian «cosmic commitment on Christ» is expressed in ordinary language used in logically odd ways.

Their importance is not to be doubted, and that importance is highlighted in our ordinary language.

In ordinary language when we speak of man's aim in life or in a particular act, we sometimes mean a pure possibility he strives to actualize.

The theologian must strive to duplicate the teachings of Scripture even if the latter is written in ordinary language and the theologians own essays are written in a more academic mode.

An oxymoron is a locution that produces an effect by means of what in ordinary language is a self - contradiction.

Genocide as a crime has two basic components: the mens rea and the actus reus, which in ordinary language is the mental and physical components of the crime.

These are household appliances (systems) to which the user describes in ordinary language the problem that he / she wants to solve (such as «making bread,» «removing a stain from a pair of trousers,» etc. depending on the type of household appliance); the system analyses the problem that needs to be solved and searches the database to see whether there is a solution (recipe) for the problem described by the user.

Mike Green, a leading expert in string theory, one of the most abstract theories in particle physics, believes it is impossible to communicate advances in his field in ordinary language.

This podcast (from Radio Survivor) tackles all of the above in ordinary language, assuming you are a little geeky, a little wonky, and a lot interested in learning how FCC regulations are made — and unmade.

We are potentially talking here not of a specialist app but of a readily available facility to which you can switch as effortlessly as to Siri — ultimately incorporated perhaps with Siri and her companions; allowing you to ask a question in ordinary language; and get a reply.

It understands only if the simple actions are grouped successively back towards a higher level language, so that groups of simple actions or instructions may have an intuitive understanding that can be expressed in ordinary language.

In any case, even if it could be shown that in ordinary language we make no reference to non-being, that would hardly mean that it is a meaningless notion.

These diverse traits are susceptible to an analogical generalization which contributes to establishing the meaning of the words «witness» and «testimony» in ordinary language.

Of this type of existent he includes such things as an electron, a molecule, a rock, an animal, or an individual human being (in ordinary language, any «physical object»).

In ordinary language we would say power rationing, because we don't have enough.

In ordinary language, why is polarization important?

In ordinary language, only individuals, not entities such as schools, can be held accountable.

in ordinary language, if the cat is dead it is already too late, if it is alive there is no problem, so that we can relax and continue as before except for some adaptation.

The requirement in s 100 (1)(b) to inform the person «in ordinary language» of his right of appeal was perhaps a pointer in that direction but was not inconsistent with the possibility that he might be informed through his solicitor.

«(1) If the Secretary of State orders a person's extradition under this Part he must --(a) inform the person of the order; (b) inform him in ordinary language that he has a right of appeal to the High Court; (c) inform a person acting on behalf of the category 2 territory of the order...»