blindfolding

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of blindfold

plural blindfoldings

1. The act of covering with a blindfold.

   Now Quine defines the affirmative stimulus meaning as “the class of all stimulations (hence evolving ocular irradiation patterns between properly timed blindfoldings) that would prompt his assent” (Quine 1960, p. 32); negative stimulus meanings are defined analogously.

   2007 November 29, Manfred Kupffer, “An Unintentional Defense of the Indeterminacy of Meaning?”, in Erkenntnis, volume 68, number 2, →DOI