Sentences with phrase «of ordinary language»

Others are through ordinary mathematical expression or through the use of ordinary language involving, for example, colors.

The terminology of ordinary language is stretched somewhat in intelligible ways for the sake of metaphysical generalization.

Second, outside this elaborate technical framework, but nonetheless within the even more elaborate framework of ordinary language, to ascribe mass to this pear is to acknowledge a host of fundamental properties and behaviors that need no formalization.

Bishop Ramsey, then, has led us to a deeper appreciation of the key to understanding religious language in terms of disclosure and commitment, of models and qualifiers, and of logically odd arrangements of ordinary language.

«Theology, Ramsey reminds us, is built out of ordinary language used in a logically odd way.

Much of our ordinary language is based on mythology in any case, and there are certain concepts which are fundamentally mythological, and with which we shall never be able to dispense — e.g. the idea of transcendence.

It «is no mere extension of ordinary language,» but by its specialized function in a subordinate role intends to be «illuminative of common - sense assertions as a whole.»

He speaks a jargon that is virtually nonsense by the standards of ordinary language; but his overall message is clear: we are coming after public schools and we mean to get them any we can and turn them into private entities.

As a matter of ordinary language, one would say that the proceedings were brought in support of a claim and were not over until the courts had fully disposed of that claim.

We can begin to utilize at this point some of the educational insights derived from our study of language - games, the logically odd use of ordinary language, the models and qualifiers, the figurative use of seemingly descriptive words, the poetic - simple, and self - involving performatives.

The metaphorical or pantheistic God of the physicists is light years away from the interventionist, miracle - wreaking, thought - reading, sin - punishing, prayer - answering God of the Bible, of priests, mullahs and rabbis, and of ordinary language.