Sentence examples for ambiguous proposition from inspiring English sources

In this passage, it seems as though they are saying that a propositional function is an ambiguous proposition.

If Uber is a morally ambiguous proposition now that it's in the business of exploiting its workforce, that ambiguity will not vanish when the workers go.

So Stanley makes Charlie a proposition that is to lead to catastrophe: a fatally ambiguous proposition that reveals Stanley to be either a sadistic copper, eager to humiliate and break the brothers in spirit, or an enlightened, even liberal, policeman whose imaginative gamble is to earn him the contempt of his junior officers.

Instead, they choose to fritter away their ingenuity on logically ambiguous propositions known as sophismata.

As a type of proposition, sophismata are ambiguous propositions about which arguments might plausibly be given both that they are true and that they are false.

And Brian De Palma -- well, Brian De Palma at his spellbinding best and cynical worst is still wiring joy buzzers under the audience's seats, constructing feverishly hallucinatory and fiendishly lucid halls of mirrors in which who's watching whom becomes an ever more ambiguous, ever more precarious proposition.

In medieval semantics, propositions that correspond to two distinct mental propositions are ambiguous or equivocal.

That-clauses can be understood as ambiguous names, sometimes denoting propositions and sometimes denoting facts.

One view might be that it depends on the intention of the speaker; another, that all propositions are ambiguous.

Craigslist provides no authority for the proposition that an ambiguous grant of rights is presumptively exclusive, and the court declines to read that term into the terms that Craigslist itself drafted.

Zalta ends up claiming that sentences embedded with respect to attitude verbs are ambiguous, sometimes expressing the sorts of propositions we are discussing, and sometimes expressing other propositions that instead of containing the individuals, properties and relations thus far discussed, contain senses of these individuals, properties and relations.