Sentence examples for class of statements from inspiring English sources

Justice Thomas proposed adopting "a reading of the confrontation clause that respects its historically limited application to a narrow class of statements bearing indicia of solemnity".

For philosophers oriented toward formalism, the advent of modern symbolic logic in the late 19th century was a watershed in the history of philosophy, because it added greatly to the class of statements and inferences that could be represented in formal (i.e., axiomatic) languages.

His ideas were met with skepticism by some, however among them Quine, who argued that the notion of analytic truth is inherently obscure and the attempt to delimit a class of statements that are true a priori should be abandoned as misguided.

It restricts the class of statements that are subject to knowability.

The second kind of statement was cognitively empirical, that is, a class of statements that are asserted to be true or false by virtue of sense experience.

His criticism of such views was that the favoured class of statements could not be picked out in the right way without an appeal to relevant experience.

One kind of statement was cognitively analytic, that is, a class of the statements that were true or false by virtue of the rules of language.

A mathematician friend recently explained that there is a whole class of mathematical statements that can be called independent.

The class of universal statements that can be candidates for the status of laws, however, is determined at any time in history by the theories of science then current.

Let us say that such a system is "subject to the Lucas-Penrose constraint" because it is constrained from being able to prove a class of true statements expressible within the system.

Essentially, these results show that within a formal system that is strong enough, there are a class of true statements that can be expressed but not proven within the system (see the entry on provability logic).