Sentence examples for affirmative proposition from inspiring English sources

A further development of Leibniz's views, revealed in a text written in 1686 but long unpublished, was his generalization concerning propositions that in every true affirmative proposition, whether necessary or contingent, the predicate is contained in the notion of the subject.

Chatton's notion of "thing" in scientific knowledge was the state of affairs signified by both the negative and the affirmative proposition.

This obviously implies that an affirmative proposition is true if and only if its extremes have personal supposition for the same thing or things.

The actual existence of things outside the soul is not always required for a (affirmative) proposition to be true (NLP II.7, 381).

Or, as Stout writes in his Preface to Jones (1911), "every affirmative proposition asserts, and every negative proposition denies, the union of different attributes within the unity of the same thing" (Stout 1911, v).

As we shall see, Jones does not depart from Lotze's austere conception of logical form: an affirmative proposition S is P states an identity, and is true just in case the extension of S = the extension of P.

Of course, this holds only for affirmative propositions.

6. Ockham (SL I.72): "In affirmative propositions a term is always asserted to supposit for something.

(3) In particular affirmative propositions, such as 'some man is animal', both the subject and predicate have determinate supposition.

Rather, affirmative propositions are true if their terms supposit for the same, negative if they supposit for different things.

Levinas has recourse, for example, to Maimonides' approach to the Infinite, using a negative interpretation of affirmative propositions.