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  • adjective comparative form of tall: more tall

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Examples

  • Thus, when Simmias is taller than Socrates, there is one accident corresponding to the concept ˜taller than™

    Medieval Theories of Relations Brower, Jeffrey 2009

  • ˜Simmias is taller than Socrates™ will be false, and hence nothing will correspond to the relational term ˜taller than™.

    Medieval Theories of Relations Brower, Jeffrey 2009

  • Thus, when Simmias is taller than Socrates, reductivists and non-reductivists are agreed that it is an accident of Simmias that directly corresponds to (or as they would prefer to say, is primarily signified by) the concept ˜taller than™, and an accident of Socrates that is primarily signified by the concept ˜shorter than™.

    Medieval Theories of Relations Brower, Jeffrey 2009

  • Thus, if Simmias is taller than Socrates, it is only Simmias's height that is identified with Simmias's tallness (and hence said to correspond to the concept ˜taller than™), whereas Socrates's height is identified with Socrates's shortness (and hence said to correspond to the concept ˜shorter than™).

    Medieval Theories of Relations Brower, Jeffrey 2009

  • Just as “the taller of we” would sound absurd to all of us, so “taller than he, ” to the unschooled American, sounds absurd.

    Chapter 9. The Common Speech. 4. The Pronoun Henry Louis 1921

  • Good Heavens, a little man standing with his back to a great wall of rock with a blazing wood fire in front of him, will find that the higher the fire leaps, the taller is the shadow of the little man cast on the rock, but he is still the same size.

    The Past and the Present 1933

  • His studio/taller is in Ihuatzio on the shores of Lake Patzcuaro.

    Recommendations? 2009

  • His studio/taller is in Ihuatzio on the shores of Lake Patzcuaro.

    Recommendations? 2009

  • His studio/taller is in Ihuatzio on the shores of Lake Patzcuaro.

    Recommendations? 2009

  • Enguany teníem molt clar quin taller havíem de fer, un sobre videobloc, en una evolució lògica dels formats dels tallers (text, àudio i imatge).

    EbreBloc 2009: Taller de videoblog, amb Jesús Ferré | [bauen] 2009

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