Meaning of searchy | Babel Free

Definitions

Tending or inclined to search.

rare

Examples

“Thus, the difference between (TC1 g) and (TC1 s) illustrates a difference between what we might call⟳ grabby truth conditions and what we might call⟳ searchy truth conditions for sentences combining names with modal operators. It[…]”

“Technical point⟳: in order⟳ to accommodate the possibility that Socrates was not named “Socrates” way back when, we may instead want⟳ the "searchy" truth condition for (1) (see⟳ explanation below) to say⟳ something like⟳ the[…]”

“But if (16) had a searchy truth condition, such as (TC16) “Joe Montana was a quarterback” is true iff P (3x) (x is the referent of “Joe Montana" and x is a quarterback) , then (16) could be true now in virtue of the fact[…]”

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