Sentence examples for at the same proposition from inspiring English sources

For example approving of a proposition and disapproving of the same proposition is inconsistent (if it is) not in virtue of directing one and the same attitude at inconsistent propositions, but rather because two allegedly incompatible attitude-types are directed at the same proposition.

(G) If two people say it ['It is possible that p is true'] at the same time about the same proposition it is perfectly possible that what the one asserts should be true, and what the other asserts false.

The term 'that John reads Moby Dick ' refers to the same proposition at every possible world; the term 'what John reads' refers to different propositions at worlds at which John reads different things (and refers to the proposition that John reads Moby Dick at those worlds at which Moby Dick is the one and only thing that John reads).

(Recall, the relativist claims that it is the same proposition that is true at one time and false at another and so nothing intrinsic to the proposition alters; it must, then, be the same bundle of properties that is the object constituent in both cases).

It follows that one cannot have knowledge and faith at the same time in relation to the same proposition; faith can only arise in the absence of knowledge.

The two relations are compatible, however: the same proposition may be at the same time deduced from and grounded in its premise.

If it does, then why is (10) false, as it is at t'; if it doesn't, then it why is (10) true, as it is at t? It also seems strange to think of that (10) itself as changing in its constituents across time, as one and the same proposition is being evaluated at the different times.

That tomorrow it will be sunny in Vienna and that tomorrow it will not be not sunny in Vienna is one and the same proposition (if stated by the same agent at the same time).

"What the government cannot legitimately do is to resubmit to the House the same proposition — or substantially the same proposition — as that of last week," he said.

In the US there is a 50% to 18% majority behind the same proposition.

[n18] The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited.