Example sentences of "called by the same [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The similarities between things called by the same name are indefinite and fluctuating ; one tries to pin terms down by definition , so that they can be used for strict inference , but Wittgenstein showed that in the vocabulary of natural languages the similarities are ‘ family resemblances ’ , by which A may be like B in one respect and B like C in another , but A like C in neither , so that it is useless to look for common characteristics by which to define the word which names them all . |
| 2 | My reason for calling a sensation ‘ a sensation of white ’ is not its resemblance in some respect to other sensations called by the same name , but its mere resemblance to them . |
| 3 | What I mean by calling a sensation ‘ a sensation of white ’ is its mere resemblance to other sensations called by the same name . |
| 4 | The implication of this passage is that the words ‘ sensation of white ’ denote the sensation , but connote its resemblance to other sensations called by the same name . |
| 5 | The persuasiveness of Berkeley 's argument about heat and pain depends on two things : ( i ) our readiness to distinguish between feeling heat and feeling hot , and ( ii ) our having the idea that if two things are called by the same name it must be because we suppose them to be like one another . |
| 6 | There is no correlation at all between the number of types of relatives that are called by the same word and the number of legitimate sexual partners in marriage . |
| 7 | The fact that several types of relatives can be called by the same term does not mean that they can not be distinguished . |
| 8 | In effect , all my mother 's female paternal kin are called by the same term that I apply to my ‘ mother ’ ; and all her male paternal kin are designated ‘ mother 's brother ’ without reference to their generational position . |
| 9 | Although this interest in pseudo-historical connections was Morgan 's primary concern , he was also one of the first anthropologists to understand that the names used to designate relatives are not simply determined by linguistic rules without reference to social factors ; kinship terms have an important social dimension , since relatives grouped together and called by the same term exhibit , at least in certain respects , shared patterns of behaviour . |