searchy

comparative more searchy · superlative most searchy

1. rareTending or inclined to search.

   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[…]

   2006, Sally Haslanger, Sally Anne Haslanger, Roxanne Marie Kurtz, Persistence: Contemporary Readings, Bradford Books

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   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[…]

   2004 January 8, Dean Zimmerman, Oxford Studies in Metaphysics Volume 1, OUP Oxford, →ISBN, page 70

   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[…]

   2009, Michael Cannon Rea, Arguing about Metaphysics