Searchy
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Searchy is an adjective meaning (rare) Tending or inclined to search.
Meaning
(rare) Tending or inclined to search.
Example Sentences
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[…]
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[…]
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include lookful, searching, peery, questlike, quizzy, researchy.
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