Sentences with phrase «ordinary speech»

Of course, the word «information,» as it is used in ordinary speech, often has some implication that the information will be useful as a guide to action.

When it comes to free - speech protections, art lies somewhere between ordinary speech and ordinary consumer goods.

So I don't think we should be afraid of ordinary speech.»

It may still be asked, however, whether words taken from ordinary speech, familiar to everybody, can appropriately be applied or addressed to God.

Albee mobilizes our attention to the terror of this environment by inviting us to sit in their home for twelve hours and listen to ordinary speech composed of banalities and trivialities — the ultimate reduction of speech to the most primitive needs of consciousness: survival, taunts, grunts, mimicry, and hate.

He was the first in that day, so the echoing room, where even ordinary speech was magnified to a shout, was quiet except for the sound of filling baths.

The Court held that this advertisement, although containing factually erroneous defamatory content, was entitled to the same degree of constitutional protection as ordinary speech.

Does your resume sound like ordinary speech that you'd say to a person on the barstool beside you?

The explosion of mobile voice services and the advance of smart mobile voice assistants, like Siri, are already significantly influencing how consumers interact with companies, encouraging them to describe issues and look for solutions using ordinary speech.

Readers of Solzhenitsyn's «Repentance and Self - Limitation in the Life of Nations,» which dared to defend as essentially correct the common feature of ordinary speech that depicts nations as capable of guilt, repentance, and a «spiritual life,» will understand why, as will viewers moved by Nelson's Mandela core message in the film Invictus.

In varying degrees, legal language has always differed from ordinary speech.

Ordinary speech is not a hunting operation, because inheritances are organized into habitual low - level conceptual inheritances which fulfill themselves.

For Whitehead, religious language is a legitimate mode of discourse precisely because it points to the metaphysical background implicit in ordinary speech and experience.

Scientific language («The temperature was -5 degrees Fahrenheit») seeks language that has a certain kind of precision lacking in our ordinary speech — a precision that we can quantify and test, that can be used to settle disputes about how cold it actually is.

The student of mathematics is taught to be precise in his use of terms and rigorous in his arguments, avoiding the vagueness and ambiguity that play so large a part in ordinary speech, and shunning the intuitive leaps and tacit assumptions that figure so prominently in everyday reasoning.

Allusion is actually quite common; in ordinary speech and conversation, we can not do without it, for if everything mentioned were immediately glossed, a single page of text would stretch into hundreds of pages and assertion would be forever deferred.

There is some evidence in our ordinary speech in favor of this view.

Ordinary speech and technological speech that dominate so much of our life have as their primary purpose the description of the world in which we live.

Ordinary speech and technological speech are measured by the necessary shapes of one's furniture.

Let's look briefly at Northrup's types: Ordinary speech is the language of the level of consciousness.

Process thought uses its key words not unfamiliar in ordinary speech - words such as «event,» «process, organism,» «sentience» and «internal relations.»

The same with «he thinks...» Ordinary speech is indeed often wiser than philosophers have mostly been.

But ordinary speech, though wise, is without a doctrine of wisdom, and in spite of Wittgenstein I see a role for doctrinal wisdom.

Testing the limits of vocal ingenuity, throat - singers can create sounds unlike anything in ordinary speech and song — carrying two musical lines simultaneously, say, or harmonizing with a waterfall