Sentence examples for a primary proposition from inspiring English sources

It seems too weak since it implies that contrastive knowledge of a primary proposition p does not require that we be in any position whatever to detect that p holds.

But while this response rules out lucky guesses, it will not enable the contrastivist to handle Gettieresque objections, in which a primary proposition is justified but only accidentally true.

Indeed, Chapter VI, in total, offers a final and convincing salvo of The anti-witch's primary proposition – that methods and theory cannot be easily or effectively separated.

The difficulty with a system such as those of Descartes and Spinoza is that there are persons who cannot be brought to see that the primary propositions of the system are self-evidently true, and this not because they are lacking in attention or insight but because they see the world in a different way.

But he also considers modifying his account so that it requires justification for believing primary propositions.

With this the parallels between the logic of primary propositions and that of secondary propositions became clear, with one notable difference, namely it seems that the secondary propositions always translate into universal primary propositions.

The key (but not original) observation that Boole used was simply that one can convert secondary propositions into primary propositions.

With this translation scheme it is clear that Boole's treatment of secondary propositions can be analyzed by the methods he had developed for primary propositions.

The symbols X, Y, Z, etc. of secondary propositions did not refer to classes, but rather they referred to (primary) propositions.

The Mormon Church ceased funding anti-gay marriage work after the backlash to its role as a primary backer of NOM's Proposition 8 campaign in California in 2008.

Why would a firm whose primary value proposition is judgment-based and bespoke diagnoses invest in such a departure when its core business was thriving?