ordinary-language

In severing the deeply entrenched, Greek ordinary-language connection between soul and life in all its forms, the Stoic theory is taking an enormously momentous step, one that obviously restricts rather dramatically the proper subject matter of a theory of soul.

Ancient Theories of Soul Lorenz, Hendrik 2009

They either de-emphasize or sever the ordinary-language connection between soul and life in all its functions and aspects.

Ancient Theories of Soul Lorenz, Hendrik 2009

This being said, my turn toward constitutional design has made me into much more of a "textual determinist" inasmuch as the parts of the US Constitution I'm now most interested in -- and about which I incessantly blog -- are the "hard-wired" structural provisions that are not, pragmatically speaking, open to "interpretation" in an ordinary-language sense.

Balkinization 2007

Most philosophers regard this little puzzle as an interesting way to start thinking about the logic of certain of our ordinary-language terms and the vagueness of certain properties.

Species Membership, Mental Properties, and Parties of Death 2006

If we specify the description that is supposed to capture a narrow content in ordinary language, then we will need to use only ordinary-language terms that do not have broad contents.

Narrow Mental Content Brown, Curtis 2007

If the moral of the arguments for broad content is as sweeping as philosophers like Burge believe, it may be difficult or impossible to find ordinary-language expressions that satisfy this requirement.

Narrow Mental Content Brown, Curtis 2007

Eagleton rightly emphasizes that ordinary-language concepts such as “existence” might not quite be up to the task of dealing with God, at least not in the same way that they deal with Al Gore.

The God Conundrum Sean 2006

He said it was a technical linguistic term and should have an operational definition like me, he is a former linguistics grad student; I said it was an ordinary-language term and did in fact include the biographical component, whether he approved or not.

languagehat.com: NATIVE SPEAKER. 2004

In the case of developmental disability, the clinical terms 'idiot,' 'moron,' and 'cretin' were introduced in the 19th Century to replace the demeaning ordinary-language 'natural fool' or 'dummy' (which latter served also to label those whose hearing impairment made it hard for them to learn to speak).

Blogometer Ian Faerstein 2010

In the case of developmental disability, the clinical terms 'idiot,' 'moron,' and 'cretin' were introduced in the 19th Century to replace the demeaning ordinary-language 'natural fool' or 'dummy' (which latter served also to label those whose hearing impairment made it hard for them to learn to speak).

Blogometer Ian Faerstein 2010