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He suggests that we employ such nouns as ˜fact™ and ˜state of affairs™ as non-referential devices for expressing claims.
Peter Frederick Strawson Snowdon, Paul 2009
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à Daniel Ross plays Kyle, and he gets by far the best non-referential lines in the movie.
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Detroit, like the urban experience in general, has become non-referential.
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Detroit, like the urban experience in general, has become non-referential.
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For you see, this film provides a protracted insider wink to woo audience members who are familiar with the books, yet tries to remain non-referential enough to keep the attention of non-fans as well.
May 2nd, 2005 2005
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As in the middle period, the later Wittgenstein maintains that mathematics is essentially syntactical and non-referential, which, in and of itself, makes Wittgenstein's philosophy of mathematics anti-Platonist insofar as Platonism is the view that mathematical terms and propositions refer to objects and/or facts and that mathematical propositions are true by virtue of agreeing with mathematical facts.
Wittgenstein's Philosophy of Mathematics Rodych, Victor 2007
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Among the kitchy chain restaraunts, go to Hard Rock Cafe, if you have to have crazy crap on the walls and mediocre, non-referential food like Chuck Berry Lasagna. copyright steve wasser
Archive 2005-12-01 2005
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Detroit, like the urban experience in general, has become non-referential.
Smart Mobs » Blog Archive » “21st Century Graffiti”:The Real Urban Renewal? 2005
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But… I have no idea what any of this means: Detroit, like the urban experience in general, has become non-referential.
Smart Mobs » Blog Archive » “21st Century Graffiti”:The Real Urban Renewal? 2005
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Among the kitchy chain restaraunts, go to Hard Rock Cafe, if you have to have crazy crap on the walls and mediocre, non-referential food like Chuck Berry Lasagna.
Loch Tahoe 2005
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