10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «OPAQUE CONTEXT»
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opaque context in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
opaque context and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
An opaque context is defined as one in which truth is not preserved when certain
types of co-referential expressions are substituted for one another. Thus, since
Professor Green and the Dean are the same person, Professor Green and the ...
Frank Robert Palmer, 1981
2
Causation and Laws of Nature
He elaborates this differential treatment of the two types of statement, by making
use of Frege's concept of an opaque context. If a universal statement is preceded
by the clause ''it is a law that'', it works as an operator creating an opaque ...
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Lambert M Surhone, Mariam T Tennoe, Susan F Henssonow, 2011
4
Hyperbolic Systems of Conservation Laws: The Theory of ...
The two last examples show how an opaque context can scone over an
anaphoric expression occurring within the same sentence (example three) and
how the introduction of an entity into an agent's set of assumptions makes it
possible for ...
Philippe G. LeFloch, 2002
5
Frege: Philosophy of Language
By this is meant the use of quantifiers, themselves in a transparent context, which
bind variables occurring in an opaque context. There is a sharp difference in
sense — and in truth-conditions — between, e.g., 'It is possible that, for some je-,
M- ...
6
Unshadowed Thought: Representation in Thought and Language
An opaque context by itself does not identify a way for a thing to be. It and a filling
, though, must jointly determine just how the object named would be if what was
thereby said were true. Understanding an opaque context means understanding
...
7
The Linguistic Description of
Opaque Contexts (RLE ...
The most we could claim, therefore, is that the words that appear in the opaque
context are the words that the subject would use to report his own belief, want, etc
., if he were able to report it in English. But it is clear that by now we are no longer
...
8
Logic, Cause and Action: Essays in Honour of Elizabeth Anscombe
It may seem to go against the definition of 'opaque context' to construe the 'that' -
clause in 'It is true that some fungi are poisonous' as constituting an opaque
context; for the context is surely a paradigm case of a transparent one. In a
sentence ...
9
Foundations of Cognitive Grammar: descriptive application. ...
... (14) is that the indefinite occurs in an opaque context.3 In Fauconnier's theory
of mental spaces, the structure that appears in an opaque context constitutes a
mental space distinct from its "parent" space; the parent space in (14), for
instance, ...
Ronald W. Langacker, 1991
10
The Grammar of the English Tense System: A Comprehensive ...
An opaque context (or 'intensional context') is one in which the reference is not to
the real world but to an alternative (nonfactual) world. Such a context is created
by (amongst other things) 'intensional verbs' ('verbs of propositional attitude') ...
Renaat Declerck, Susan Reed, Bert Cappelle, 2006
3 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «OPAQUE CONTEXT»
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opaque context is used in the context of the following news items.
Çolakoğlu: “Mutual trust and cooperation between China and Turkey …
... as true by an international public when dealing with such an opaque context that lacks independent and transparent control mechanisms. «Journal of Turkish Weekly, Jul 15»
After Alleged Attack, Making Sense of a Chelsea Exhibition's Murky …
... its wall text and website, Hyperallergic queried Hiller repeatedly about the exhibition's opaque context. A post on Euromaidan Press, a leftist, ... «Hyperallergic, Oct 14»
AAA Grades on Subprime CDOs May Give Cold Comfort
To wrap some less opaque context around that concept, a similar decline in the price of the AAA rated 10-year U.S. government bond would ... «Bloomberg, Jul 07»
