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This holistic conception of how to evaluate proposed regimentations of natural language was part and parcel of Quine's criticism of the early positivists 'analytic-synthetic distinction, and Quine's more radical suggestion that there is no such distinction.

Logical Form Pietroski, Paul 2009

The preference for first-order regimentations has come to seem unwarranted, or at least highly tendentious; see Boolos (1998).

Logical Form Pietroski, Paul 2009

For as students quickly learn, first-order regimentations of natural sentences often turn out to be highly artificial.

Logical Form Pietroski, Paul 2009

(And in some cases, such regimentations seem to be unavailable.)

Logical Form Pietroski, Paul 2009

The upshot is that a grammatical demarcation of logical constants will not impose significant constraints on what counts as a logical constant unless it is combined with some principle for limiting the languages to which it applies (excluding, for example, languages with the operator “¢”) and privileging some regimentations of their grammars over others (excluding, for example, regimentations that treat truth-functional connectives as members of a small lexical category).

Logical Constants MacFarlane, John 2009

This is already indicated by the fact that most regimentations of second-order logic adopt a version of the axiom of choice as one of its axioms.

Philosophy of Mathematics Horsten, Leon 2007

WIMBLEDON, England With traditions and regimentations as adhered to with the same precision that its fabled lawns are clipped, no place in sports runs a tighter ship than Wimbledon.

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Which was probably true because of the restrictions and regimentations that had been imposed upon the economy of our part of the country after the war between the states.

Oral History Interview with George Wallace, July 15, 1974. Interview A-0024. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007) 1974

Privation and its resultant unhappiness had put them in a mood to try new regimentations designed to modify and put some Christian charity into the law of supply and demand.

An Address by Mr. Arthur Crock 1933