Sentence examples for close the proposition from inspiring English sources

Intuitively A is closer to the bullseye than is B. The largest sphere which does not overlap at all with a proposition is plausibly a measure of how close the proposition is to being true.

Ted Olson and David Boies, with the plaintiffs Paul Katami, Sandy Stier, and Kris Perry, at a news conference after their closing arguments in the Proposition 8 case, in 2010.

If that's the case we can start to see how one proposition might be closer to the Truth — the proposition whose range singles out the actual world — than another.

The proposition the number of planets in our solar system is 9 may be false, but quite a bit closer to the truth than the proposition that the number of planets in our solar system is 9 billion.

Lemmas 1, 2, and 3 are close to ([3], Proposition 5, Proposition 6).

"The Proposition" probably comes closer to the truth than origin stories like "The Patriot," a Hollywood fantasy that turns the American Revolution into a glib action flick.

So the truth with the least probability on the evidence is the proposition that is closest to the whole truth.

And while it makes sense for Tesco to push hardware to "close the loop" on the digital proposition, it is also an imperative for the company in a wider sense.

The vote by the California Supreme Court was not even close as Proposition 8 was upheld by a 6-1 majority.

The correct answer in the item above is close, and other choices (i.e., judge, read and send) had a syntagmatic relationship with entry because the proposition [Close Entry] meaning entry closes based on Kintsch (1998) and Bovair and Kieras (1985) is formed.

Thus, we explicitly test the proposition that population-level variability is "reasonably close" enough to geometric similarity for intraspecific comparisons of metabolic energy expenditure.