Sentence examples for Significant propositions from inspiring English sources

Tautological propositions are generally a priori, necessary, and analytic, and significant propositions are generally a posteriori, contingent, and synthetic.

The distinction between tautological and significant propositions figures importantly in the history of the philosophy of religion.

Beyond that, what actually had failed was the attempt to characterize for natural languages the class of cognitively significant propositions by recursive definitions in purely logical terms, either by relations of deducibility or translatability.

As Hume and Kant pointed out, however, it is fallacious to derive a proposition with existential import from a tautology, and it is now generally agreed that, from a tautology alone, it is impossible to derive any significant proposition.

He formulates four criteria or conditions "the complete fulfillment of which would establish a significant proposition, apparently self-evident, in the highest degree of certainty attainable: and which must be approximately realised by the premises of our reasoning in any inquiry, if that reasoning is to lead us cogently to trustworthy conclusions" (Sidgwick, 1907: 338).

The most significant proposition for Los Angeles in Tuesday's election wasn't even on the ballot here.

In Michigan, voters defeated by significant margins propositions to allow hunting of the state's wolves.

"We had concluded that there was a significant value proposition for our shareholders," Mr. Jacobs said.

Easily handing off from the smartphone to native formats on the Apple TV is a significant value proposition for multimedia consumers.

Cable companies have offered a significant value proposition to consumers in the form of subscription relationships, long term.

With the mobile VoIP market expected to reach $36 billion in revenues by 2016, and with 70 million mobile VoIP users expected to be in operation by the end of the year, Rebtel's ability to call any phone or PC anywhere over WiFI/3G or local minutes and seamlessly switch between them if coverage deteriorates, seems to lend it a significant value proposition.