For example, Steven Pinker argues in his book The Language Instinct that thought is independent of language, that language is itself meaningless in any fundamental way to human thought, and that human beings do not even think in " natural " language, i. e. any language that we actually communicate in ; rather, we think in a meta-language, preceding any natural language, called " mentalese.

Although Zermelo's fix allows a class to describe arbitrary ( possibly " large ") entities, these predicates of the meta-language may have no formal existence ( i. e., as a set ) within the theory.

XML remains a meta-language like SGML, allowing users to create any tags needed ( hence " extensible ") and then describing those tags and their permitted uses.

The sentence referred to is part of the " object language ", while the referring sentence is considered to be a part of a " meta-language " with respect to the object language.

Thus, SGML is properly a meta-language, and many particular markup languages are derived from it.

Pioneered by the philosopher Donald Davidson, another formalized theory, which aims to associate each natural language sentence with a meta-language description of the conditions under which it is true, for example: ` Snow is white ' is true if and only if snow is white.

In practice, truth-conditional semantics is similar to model-theoretic semantics ; conceptually, however, they differ in that truth-conditional semantics seeks to connect language with statements about the real world ( in the form of meta-language statements ), rather than with abstract models.

Graham Priest once wrote " the whole point of the dialetheic solution to the semantic paradoxes is to get rid of the distinction between object language and meta-language ".

It is a meta-language that can be used to define or recognize Type-0 languages from the Chomsky hierarchy.

In the case of the LF logical framework, the meta-language is the-calculus.

* applying a meta-language which includes fuzzy concepts in a more inclusive categorical system which is not fuzzy.

Its most outstanding feature is its high degree of programmability through the meta-language ML.

However, Neve Monosson is the first example of a full municipal borough actually declared under law by the Minister of the Interior, under a model subsequently adopted in Maccabim-Re ' ut as well.

Dissatisfaction with older philosophical approaches had begun earlier and had produced other changes in society, such as the Protestant Reformation, but the revolution in science began when natural philosophers began to mount a sustained attack on the Scholastic philosophical program and supposed that mathematical descriptive schemes adopted from such fields as mechanics and astronomy could actually yield universally valid characterizations of motion and other concepts.

Johan Frederich Reichert, who later agreed to become Rapp's adopted son and took the name of Frederick Reichert Rapp, reported in a letter dated February 25, 1804, that there were " at least 100 families or 500 persons actually ready to go " even if they had to sacrifice their property.

The Iroquois philosophy in particular gave much to Christian thought of the time and in many cases actually inspired some of the institutions adopted in the United States: for example, Benjamin Franklin was a great admirer of some of the methods of the Iroquois Confederacy, and much of early American literature emphasized the political philosophy of the natives.

However, it is not clear in how many of these countries it has been actually adopted by the Deaf community.

Some types of taxes have been proposed but not actually adopted in any major jurisdiction.

* July 28 – The 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution is adopted, legally, if not actually, guaranteeing African Americans full citizenship and equal protection and all persons in the United States due process of law.

The D4 Framing format that is referenced above is actually more of a marketable term, adopted by " techno Jargon " to simplify what is actually called Superframe Framing Format, an embedded 12 bit framing code.

The Norfolk Naval Shipyard, often called the Norfolk Navy Yard, is a historic and active U. S. Navy facility that is actually located in Portsmouth rather than Norfolk ; the name " Norfolk " was adopted to avoid confusion with Portsmouth, New Hampshire, where a naval shipyard already existed when the Virginia facility opened.

Though known as King Charles XIII in Sweden, he was actually the seventh Swedish king by that name, as Charles IX ( reigned 1604 – 1611 ) had adopted his numeral after studying a fictitious history of Sweden.

Although the fungus is actually located in nearby Mastodon Township, Michigan, the city of Crystal Falls adopted it as a tourist attraction, and holds a " Humungus Fungus Fest " as an annual event.

This in turn suggests that the resultant changes these men eventually adopted could very easily have been applied in order to invent confirmatory testimony that never actually existed prior to 2006.

When the English language initially adopted the word, it referred to a plan of something, not to the act of actually carrying this plan out.

For example, it was the term used in the West to refer to the leaders of Kuwait's ruling al-Sabah dynasty, even though the monarchic style was actually Hakim ( Arabic ' ruler ') until June 19, 1961, when Kuwait joined the Arab League, and the title Emir was adopted.

All of these official figures were somewhat inflated because some factories said they adopted the continuous week without actually doing so.

Hisayoshi's adopted " nephew " ( actually Nijō Michihira's son ) Muneaki became a gon-dainagon ( acting dainagon ).

Since cormorants and relatives are probably not actually Pelecaniformes, a solution adopted by some modern authors is to merge the " core " Pelecaniformes with the Ciconiiformes.

The warhead weight is also reduced, but its effectiveness was actually increased when a time-delayed semi-armour-piercing high-explosive design was adopted.

Nabesna was actually Osgood ’ s preferred term for Upper Tanana, so Shinen appears to have followed McKennan in lumping Tanacross and Upper Tanana together but adopted Osgood ’ s logonym.

In 2004 the freelance journalist Magnus Londen published an article where he claimed that Ior Bock was actually an adopted son of Rhea Böxström-Svedlin and Bror Svedlin.

She is an orphan who was ' bought ' by the Nergal corporation for the purposes of being the chief science officer for the Nadesico, which was actually to be completed six years after she had been adopted.

Born in Los Angeles, California, MacArthur was adopted as an infant by playwright Charles MacArthur and actress Helen Hayes ( He was actually the biological child of Charles MacArthur, the product of his affair with another woman ).

It also comes to light that an arty photographer at the party is actually one of three children that Marina had adopted in the past for a while and then ' got tired of ' ( Marina does not recognize her as such at the party ).

While Delphi is actually related to the word (" womb "), many etiological myths are similarly based on folk etymology ( the term " Amazon ", for example ).

Ranke thus sent the researcher to the archives for primary sources ; there he should transcend his personal predispositions and parochial loyalties, and write objective history " wie es eigentlich gewesen " (" as it actually happened ").

Some former Soviet scientists said they were actually hampered by Fuchs's data, because Beria insisted that their first bomb (" Joe 1 ") should resemble the American plutonium bomb (" Fat Man ") as much as possible, even though the scientists had discovered a number of improvements and different designs for a more efficient weapon.

The need for impersonal terms is most clearly seen in a rowing shell where the majority of the crew face aft (" backwards ") and the oars to their right are actually on the port side.

The round can also said to be closed before it has actually ended if there are still players remaining to act, but they will not be entitled to raise either because the last raise was a sub-minimum all-in raise ( see poker table stakes rules ) or because the limit (" cap ") on allowed raises has been reached.

In the summer of 1939 the Nazis themselves actually banned the continued use of the term in the press, ordering it to use expressions such as nationalsozialistisches Deutschland (" National Socialist Germany "), Grossdeutsches Reich (" Greater German Reich "), or simply Deutsches Reich ( German Reich ) to refer to the German state instead.

Magritte painted below the pipe " Ceci n ' est pas une pipe " (" This is not a pipe "), which seems a contradiction, but is actually true: the painting is not a pipe, it is an image of a pipe.

The barony in the Sandys family (" sands ") had been revived in 1802 for the second baron's mother, Mary Sandys Hill, so at the date of the legend, in the 1830s, " Lord " Sandys was actually a Lady.

It concluded that two allegations were founded — that Taleyarkhan had claimed independent confirmation of his work when in reality the apparent confirmations were done by Taleyarkhan's former students and was not as " independent " as Taleyarkhan implied, and that Taleyarkhan had included an additional colleague's name on one of his papers who had not actually been involved in the research (" the sole apparent motivation for the addition of Mr. Butt was a desire to overcome a reviewer's criticism ," the report concluded ).

One of the earliest and most influential French radio plays was the prize-winning " Marémoto " (" Seaquake "), by Gabriel Germinet and Pierre Cusy, which presents a realistic account of a sinking ship before revealing that the characters are actually actors rehearsing for a broadcast.

The city is sometimes described as The City of Four Lakes, comprising the four successive lakes of the Yahara River: Lake Mendota (" Fourth Lake "), Lake Monona (" Third Lake "), Lake Waubesa (" Second Lake ") and Lake Kegonsa (" First Lake "), although Waubesa and Kegonsa are not actually in Madison, but just south of it.

Tabu itself has been derived from alleged Tongan morphemes ta (" mark ") and bu (" especially "), but this may be a folk etymology ( note that Tongan does not actually have a phoneme / b /), and tapu is usually treated as a unitary, non-compound word inherited from Proto-Polynesian * tapu, in turn inherited from Proto-Oceanic * tabu, with the reconstructed meaning " sacred, forbidden ".< ref name = POLLEX > In its current use on Tonga, the word tapu means " sacred " or " holy ", often in the sense of being restricted or protected by custom or law.

One hypothetical etymology points to London bearskin " jobbers " ( market makers ), who would sell bearskins before the bears had actually been caught in contradiction of the proverb ne vendez pas la peau de l ' ours avant de l ’ avoir tué (" don't sell the bearskin before you've killed the bear ")— an admonition against over-optimism.

His name in Italy has remained Pietro Gambadilegno (" Pegleg Peter "), or simply Gambadilegno (" Pegleg ") even though it has been a long time since he was actually depicted with a pegleg in either comics or animated cartoons.

The 76ers didn't quite fulfill Malone's prediction, as their run was actually " fo ', fi ', fo " (" four, five, four ")-- a loss to the Bucks in game four of the Eastern finals being the only blemish on their playoff run.

In Greek mythology, as recorded in Pindar's 9th Pythian ode, Cyrene ( or Kyrene, ) (" sovereign queen ") was the daughter of Hypseus, King of the Lapiths, although some myths state that her father was actually the river-god Peneus and she was a nymph rather than mortal.

While Skylab already featured a second docking port, it were these two Salyut stations that would become the first that actually utilized two docking ports: This made it possible for two Soyuz spacecraft to dock at the same time for crew exchange of the station and for Progress spacecraft to resupply the station, allowing for the first time a continuos (" permanent ") occupation of space stations.

The name was generally taken to mean " she who brings children into the light " ( Latin: lux, lucis, " light "), but may actually have been derived from lucus (" grove ") after a sacred grove of lotus trees on the Esquiline Hill associated with the goddess.