The van is a one-of-a-kind proposition right down to its forbidden license plate, a paper facsimile of which rests on the dashboard, strategically obscuring the standard plate — DWY8968 — the department issued him after revoking the GETOSAMA plates its custom plates unit sent out, apparently in error, in November.
And if James is right that there is a kind of proposition that has as a truth-maker its being believed, what we might call "dependent truths," then proposition (9) looks well supported.
"All my plays have a kind of proposition about the theatre.
In the correspondence Collingwood replies to Ryle by claiming that that there is a third kind of proposition, propositions which employ philosophical concepts.
The signs, in a sense, convert the invisible app data into a kind of value proposition for the walker.
Like "The Invention of Love," Tom Stoppard's dramatic study of A. E. Housman, Wright's play is a kind of "what if" proposition, though on a smaller scale; "Vincent in Brixton" is about one complicated collision between genius and domestic order.
An analogous schema holds for complex expressions, since Burley adds a fifth kind of proposition to the ones he recognized before, correlating them in a similar way, since he now admits spoken, written, two kinds of mental, and real propositions.
(Note that Lewis's suggestion seems to involve a kind of inference from the proposition that I'm in ideal conditions and the proposition that I value x to x being valuable. If so, his model is not a perceptualist one).
In some ways that beats 600m Instagrammers taking selfies, although admittedly that's a different kind of proposition and business model.
We will discuss this type of necessity in sections 2.3 and 2.6, but we can begin with the intuitive idea that there is a kind of necessity that a proposition has now when the content of the proposition is about something that occurred in the past.
What looks like a truth-apt proposition with a complex structure is really playing a quite different role: it is not a proposition, but a kind of rule.
