Sentence examples for contain propositions from inspiring English sources

An important part of MN, furthermore, is that this evidence base must not contain propositions obviously entailing the existence of supernatural beings, or propositions that are accepted by way of faith.

Thus, the calibration arguments do not show in general, of any finite algebra \(\mathcal{F}\), that a credence function on \(\mathcal{F}\) ought to be a probability function, since not every such algebra will contain propositions with the form required by the constraints \(C(\sim)\).

(Weight is, of course, a reducible characteristic if there ever was one!) The reason they give for this is that not even the weight of a whole can be logically inferred from premises that solely contain propositions about the weight of the parts; in addition a law is needed which expresses the weight of the whole as some specific mathematical function of the weight of the constituent (1948, p. 119).

The problem is that, when the agenda contains propositions that are logically connected, the Hamming distance may be responsible of double counting because it ignores such interdependencies.

transmit-environments As mentioned above, some persons have an "environment" which contains propositions that are repeatedly communicated to the person, as if they were perceived in the person's environment.

The November ballot contains Proposition 23, which would freeze the state's landmark global warming law, AB 32, barring a precipitous drop in the unemployment rate.

Of particular note is the edition published by two Jesuits, Le Seur and Jacquier, in 1739-42, for it contains proposition-by-proposition commentary, much of it employing the Leibnizian calculus, that extends to roughly the same length as Newton's text.

Analogy network initialization Here is a more precise description of POPCO's algorithm for generating an analogy network from two analog sets containing proposition representations in predicate/argument form.

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

This is due to the fact that these theories contain general propositions that have the logical form of universal axioms.

They can nevertheless contain whole propositions as parts, e.g., the idea of "the man who discovered that the planets have elliptic orbits".