Sentence examples for a distinct proposition from inspiring English sources

However, for every class of propositions, m, it is possible to generate a distinct proposition, such as the proposition that every proposition in m is true, in violation of Cantor's theorem.

In mixing the conventions of two founding arcade genres – the 2D shooter and the fight simulation – it presents a reasonably distinct proposition, where one-on-one battles see contestants showering each other in bullets and special attacks.

The Week also recorded digital sales of 26,283, but they are recorded separately by the ABC because it is sufficiently different from the print product to be regarded as an entirely distinct proposition.

It is clear that Nozick intends to assert this further claim even though he does not explicitly recognize that it is a further and distinct proposition.

An utterance of the sentence 'Bush is sitting' on t expresses (R-101) while an utterance of that sentence on t' expresses the distinct proposition (R-102).

Stage theorists can claim that there are a host of distinct propositions corresponding to (10), each with a distinct momentary stage as subject constituent in whatever state the object is in at the time of its existence.

But even if we could avoid the problem of saying what it is for a sentence to be atomic, since many distinct propositions imply the same atomic sentences, this criterion would not satisfy requirement that A be equivalent to AR.

It can dismiss intuitions that fly beneath the radar of clear and distinct propositions, even perhaps on the wings of a poem's multivalent images.

A consequence of contextualism is that sentences containing 'knows' may express distinct propositions, depending on the conversational contexts in which they're uttered.

It should be clear that on this account of propositions sentences that are necessarily equivalent may express distinct propositions, and that the semantic values of expressions in a sentence are recoverable from the proposition it expresses.

In discussing recent accounts of structured propositions below, it will be shown how, on those accounts, sentences that are necessarily equivalent may express distinct propositions; and how the semantic values of expressions in a sentence are recoverable from the proposition expressed by the sentence.