The correct analysis of propositions containing definite descriptions has been the subject of considerable philosophical controversy.
Therefore it is the analysis of propositions as they stand.
Yet why then did Moore think that the analysis of propositions was so important?
In his analysis of propositions, Bolzano did not break through the traditional paradigms.
In his analysis of propositions Bolzano distinguished clearly different levels in his realm of propositions and ideas.
(TLP, 3.25) {§6.5} It is obvious that the analysis of propositions must bring us to elementary propositions which consist of names in immediate combination.
Thus, for example, he is content to allow that philosophical argument may show that a phenomenalist analysis of propositions about the physical world is correct.
(Ibid., 48) {§5.8} §5.8} That all sound philosophy should begin with an analysis of propositions, is a truth too evident, perhaps, to demand a proof.
Although Bolzano contributed many highly interesting and valuable insights to the analysis of propositions, they all are shaped in the subject-predicate scheme.
Temporal Logic encompasses those systems of logic designed to facilitate the analysis of propositions for which time plays an essential part in their meaning.
