Sentence examples for antecedent proposition from inspiring English sources

(39) also quantifies over parts of the topic situation that exemplify the antecedent proposition, but as in the case of 37(b), considering all exemplifying situations would violate the Counting Principle, and we therefore need a counting criterion.

But the implied proposition, 'P is true' (where P is the name of 'Every proposition is false'), is false because its constituent terms, 'Every proposition is false' and 'true', do not stand for the same thing, since ex hypothesi, P stands for the antecedent proposition 'Every proposition is false', not for things that are true.

In another invalid inference form, "denying the antecedent," the categorical proposition denies the antecedent of the conditional, and the conclusion denies the conclusion of the conditional: If Othello is a bachelor, then he is male.

Conditionals were understood to be non-simple propositions containing one proposition as antecedent and one as consequent.

In the form of argument known as modus ponens, the categorical proposition affirms the antecedent of the conditional, and the conclusion affirms the consequent, as in the example just given.

Thus, we could have the following statement: If PaO2/FiO2 = 225 is high then diagnosis is no-injury This diagnosis (consequent or conclusion) has a certain degree of truth (between 0 and 1) which will be determined by the degree of truth of the proposition before 'then' (antecedent).

They also had the hottest political issue in Arkansas in 1998, one whose antecedents could be traced to Proposition 13, the citizens initiative of two decades back that capped the property tax in California.

For example, Chellas sees them as necessary propositions given the antecedent.

This judgment is expected if (49) quantifies over situations that exemplify the proposition expressed by its antecedent.

The proposition expressed by the antecedent of (61) would be (62): If the domain for the event quantifier in (62) is established on the basis of some suitable counting criterion, it could quantify over maximal spatiotemporally connected donkey rides.

For 47(a), for example, the proposition expressed by the antecedent could be 48(b): 48(b) restricts the situations quantified over to those whose temporal extension is a day, which could be a calendar day, or, more plausibly, a 24-hour period.