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  • adjective Able to be evaluated in a certain way

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evaluate +‎ -able

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Examples

  • Consumers may not have an emotional or affective understanding of numbers and the information may therefore be less "evaluable," a term coined by Hibbard to refer to the ease or precision with which the values of the attributes across alternatives create an affective (good/bad) feeling [

    Journal of Medical Internet Research Olga C. Damman 2010

  • It is perhaps these "˜surface 'features of moral discourse, those that make it look like moral claims are assertions, and hence expressions of belief, and so truth-evaluable, and that moral disagreement appears to be genuine moral disagreement, that later tempted Ayer to consider Mackie's" ˜error 'theory of moral language (Mackie 1977) as closer to the truth (in Ayer 1984).

    Carry-Over Thread 2007

  • Another potential application of work on categories lies in the idea that various mistakes and puzzlements in ontology can be traced to the mistaken belief that category-neutral existential and quantificational claims are truth-evaluable (see Thomasson 2007).

    Categories Thomasson, Amie 2009

  • Frege noted (1879, 20) that there is no difference in truth evaluable content, between sentences such as a. John works with real estate and likes fishing

    Him 2009

  • One route to this view proceeds through the claims that a veridical perception of the world is a perceptual state with an intentional content containing demonstrative elements that refer to the mind-independent items in the environment that are perceived, and that truth-evaluable intentional contents with demonstrative elements that successfully refer are object-dependent.

    Petty Injuries 2009

  • Noncognitivism, which says that, despite appearances to the contrary, claims from the flagged domain are not truth-evaluable to begin with, they are commands or emotions disguised as truthbearers; (b) Error theory, which says that all claims from the flagged domain are false;

    The Correspondence Theory of Truth David, Marian 2009

  • The two further assumptions are the following. (a) Truth-evaluable intentional contents with demonstrative elements that successfully refer are object-dependent, and (b) experiences are of the same mental kind only if they have the same truth-evaluable contents.

    Petty Injuries 2009

  • The nodes themselves are, typically, not taken to be semantically evaluable; nor do the patterns have semantically evaluable constituents.

    Mental Representation Pitt, David 2008

  • More generally, given that a practice issues in truth-evaluable statements, it seems that one cannot advocate

    Naturalism in the Philosophy of Mathematics Paseau, Alexander 2008

  • That mental processes are computations, that computations are rule-governed sequences of semantically evaluable objects, and that the rules apply to the symbols in virtue of their content, are central tenets of mainstream cognitive science.

    Mental Representation Pitt, David 2008

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