expressibility

It isn't clear, then, that the notion of expressibility is even workable until we move to a more theoretical setting from the less theoretic setting of language in use.

Words and Other Things 2008

He uses variations of the word "expressibility" many times while explaining a "BioShock" game's prime elements.

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Grammar is what gives rise to the unlimited expressibility of language.

SuperCooperators Martin A. Nowak 2011

Opposition to assumption (i) rests on the view that expressibility by logically equivalent sentences may be necessary but is not sufficient for fact identity.

The Correspondence Theory of Truth David, Marian 2009

Another key point about numeralwise expressibility is that although we informally interpret, for example,

Kurt Gödel Kennedy, Juliette 2007

Instead, it brought him to a more refined account of the non-linguistic arts which was still consistent with those principles: the non-linguistic arts do sometimes express meanings and thoughts, but the meanings and thoughts in question are ones which are parasitic on a prior linguistic expression or expressibility of them possessed by the artist.

Friedrich Daniel Ernst Schleiermacher Forster, Michael 2002

An intuition, growing till it all but became an idea, and then remaining short of expressibility, unable to perceive even its own indefiniteness -- a film for impressions where there is no light -- such was the vagueness of my guess concerning the metamorphosis that was taking place.

Shapes that Haunt the Dusk Henry Mills Alden 1877

(i) strengthenings of this expressibility by forming systems with additional negation operators or with multiple t-norm based conjunction operations; (ii) modifications of this expressibility e.g. by deleting the truth degree constant 0 from the language, but adding an implication connective to the basic vocabulary, and (iii) generalizations which modify the basic t-norms into non-commutative

Many-Valued Logic Gottwald, Siegfried 2004