Sentence examples for a possibility proposition from inspiring English sources

The readings gave Râzî all the conversions mentioned in section 2.3.1 above except 1 (he took the absolute affirmative to convert as a possibility proposition).

This proof is open to Avicenna, given that he took first-figure syllogisms with a possibility proposition as its minor premise to be perfect, or nearly so; this syllogistic mix was rejected by most later logicians, along with the other proofs.

Avicenna wrote a brief summary of Aristotle's modal syllogistic, but his own theory was different, being based on the assumptions that the subject terms and the predicate terms of assertoric and modal propositions stand for all possible applications and the truth-conditions of assertoric propositions and corresponding possibility propositions are the same.

He also accepted syllogisms with possibility propositions as minor premises to be productive.

At various points, we find Avicenna presenting Aristotle's decisions (about mixes with possibility propositions as minor premises) as failures to implement general principles (Avicenna al-Masâ'il al-Gharîba: [1974] 94.20, 94.22, 95.52, 95.11 95.11).

There may well be difficulties of explaining how a proposition could be part of more than one concrete world (and why it would only be part of some concrete worlds but not all), but this framework seems to make conceptual room for the possibility propositions being true at worlds without being true in them.

Leibniz's definition of a possibility is simply a proposition that can be shown to be such that a contradiction will never arise in its analysis.

Such a possibility has parallels with the theoretical proposition originally proposed by Grey and Mathews (2000) suggesting that repeated exposure to positive or negative scenarios may result in a generic emotional priming effect whereby subsequently encountered ambiguous information is interpreted in a valence-congruent manner.

Possibility theory does so only indirectly, although possibility measures on a field of propositions A can also be defined without recourse to a possibility distribution on the underlying set W of possibilities.

The latter accepts only two possibilities for a proposition: to be true (assigned a 1 conventionally) or to be false (assigned a 0 conventionally).

Motivated by Section 4.2, in this appendix we discuss how the form of the double centralizer of a Lie algebra g ⊂ su ( k ) limits the possibilities for : Proposition 49 Let denote a subalgebra of su ( k ).