Sentence examples for complete proposition from inspiring English sources
Without these determinations, the sentence "It is snowing" has no truth value, it is just a propositional form which does not correspond to a complete proposition; "in order to be true, [such propositions] require the addition of such specifications as to time (and often place as well), 'It is snowing today, in this place'" (Bolzano 1973, 57).
For example, in ϕx, in which both variables are free, each variable must be replaced appropriately if a proposition of the form in question (such as "Socrates is wise") is to be obtained; but in (∃x)ϕx, in which x is bound, it is necessary only to replace ϕ by a predicate in order to obtain a complete proposition (e.g., replacing ϕ by "is wise" yields the proposition "Something is wise").
(6) doesn't express a complete proposition on its own because 'today' does not have a complete sense on its own.
(If it helps, think of an unsaturated proposition-part as the result of abstracting away from one or more arguments in a complete proposition).
The A version can also be identified as a de dicto ascription of belief (relating him to a dictum, a complete proposition), whereas the B version is a de re ascription of belief (relating him to an individual, a res, that his belief is about).
In further analyzing the subject and predicate idea of a proposition, we will find out, that in special cases (as, e.g., in the case of the idea [the judgment that God is omnipotent]), a complete proposition will turn out to be a part of an idea (WL I, 221).
It does follow, however, that conventional word meanings are not the final constituents of complete propositions (see Allot & Textor 2012).
The following result follows from [[7], Theorem 1.5] and completes Proposition 2 in the case when (2) is oscillatory.
This does neither imply, however, that (a) the completing proposition N can be linguistically expressed, nor (b) that it can be expressed in non-trivial way, in the sense that N does not already imply L on logical reasons alone.
But unless you have excess inventory, like we did, or insane margins, or you do real volume with them, you need to consider it a complete advertising proposition".
