transitivity
IPA: trænsʌtˈɪvʌti
noun
- (grammar) The degree in which any one verb can take/govern objects.
- (mathematics, logic) The property of being transitive.
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Examples of "transitivity" in Sentences
- ˜said of™ primary substances, so is the genus (recall the transitivity of the ˜said of™ relation).
- Felix: Interesting example of the "transitivity" of the verb "heal" in the context of my discussion.
- I have illustrated how we might develop a rule of transitivity which is useful on journeys from place to place.
- Unless there are constraints on how the objects of choice are individuated, conditions of rationality such as transitivity are empty.
- 'transitivity' is used in a more expanded semantic sense than that used in traditional grammars where it simply serves to identify verbs which take direct objects.
- However, the irreducibility of a group representation does not entail the transitivity of the group action, and neglect of this fact has a tendency to lead some authors astray.
- The somewhat simplistic idea of "utility" is certainly helpful in many cases and has a cogent theoretical basis in the assumptions of transitivity, completeness, etc. of preferences.
- These theorems show that if preferences among acts meet certain constraints, such as transitivity, then there exist a probability function and a utility function (given a choice of scale) that generate expected utilities agreeing with preferences.
- There are any number of highly educated attacks on some of the foundations of economic thought (rationality, in the sense of transitivity, complete ordering, etc.) that make strong cases that people are simply incapable of acting in the way economics would demand (Sen, for instance).
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