minimality

The examples discussed suggest that the notion of minimality that is needed for the analysis of donkey conditionals also accounts for exhaustive interpretations of answers.

Situations in Natural Language Semantics Kratzer, Angelika 2009

There seems to be some residual shame hanging around the word trash. and the word recycle bears connotations or memories of retentive elders who saved everything till you tripped on it all. so the urban psyche limits its modernity by its minimality, small space, self contained materialism.

Inspiration from Washington DC, Philadelphia and Portland OR. Recycling, Hazardous Waste and old electronics… 2008

Thus he answered the criticism of the “minimality” of his style with the “opening up” that occurs in “Cathedral.”

Raymond Carver Carol Sklenicka 2009

In other words, unlike the basic predications in situation semantics, Davidsonian basic predications have a built-in minimality condition.

Situations in Natural Language Semantics Kratzer, Angelika 2009

A third area where what looks like the same notion of minimality shows up is Davidsonian event predication.

Situations in Natural Language Semantics Kratzer, Angelika 2009

A practice like that would also violate the principals of minimality and proportionality, which are often used in the formulation of self-defense doctrine.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Defending Yourself Against Attack by Threatening Force Is a Crime in Kansas 2009

But I never got into grunge, it was too ... heavy and murkey and all the things I'd always hated about rock that punk in it's fire and bleach purified minimality usually sidestepped.

"Turn It On"... turn on the Top 40 grunge recordings. Ann Althouse 2008

The minimality of L attends a criterion expressed in

Combining Logics Carnielli, Walter 2007

There's a satisfying minimality to the device with its anodised bezel broken only by the single off-centre intell-key button on the front which both starts and ends the call.

Pocket-lint.com 2009

Writing for the Atlantic Monthly under the title “Less Is Less,” Atlas says that Carver’s “lackluster manner and eschewal of feeling become tiresome” and contrasts the “minimality” of “savage parables so prevalent in fiction now” with the descriptive richness and lively agitation of sixties writers such as Styron and Updike.

Raymond Carver Carol Sklenicka 2009