Sentence examples for context of the proposition from inspiring English sources

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In the context of the proposition that ladder polymers can form it was surprising that the distance between labels on the same polymer back-bone was equivalent regardless of whether the polymer was complexed or not.

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The developed simulator within the context of this proposition is explored to predict the oil recovery from a one dimensional single matrix block.

The next result will be useful to put the energy functional I in the context of the last proposition.

Explaining that "Only the proposition has sense; only in the context of a proposition has a name meaning" (TLP 3.3), he provides the reader with the two conditions for sensical language.

The seeds of one answer are contained in Tractatus 3.3, the proposition in which Wittgenstein enunciates his own version of Frege's context principle: "Only the proposition has sense; only in the context of a proposition has a name meaning" (3.3).

Ask yourself whether a random person with your client — unfamiliar with the context of your proposition — could explain your pitch.

Names must have a bedeutung (reference/meaning), but they can only do so in the context of a proposition which is held together by logical form.

For Frege, this can be seen as an uncontroversial application of his famous Context Principle: "it is only in the context of a proposition that words have any meaning" (Frege 1884: §62).

Wright justifies this position on Fregean grounds by appealing to Frege's Context Principle, which asserts that a word has no meaning (reference) except in the context of a proposition (truth).

For example, the term 'father' need not be construed as signifying in me an inherent relation, my fatherhood, somehow connecting me to my son, and suppositing for me on that account in the context of a proposition; rather, it should merely be construed as signifying me in relation to my son, thereby suppositing for me in the context of a proposition, while connoting my son.

In other words, the sign is not primarily characterized by its appropriateness to fulfill a semantic function in the context of a proposition, but rather by its capability to act in an epistemologically efficient way on a cognitive power: "A sign is something that makes think" (signum est res faciens cogitare) (Petrus Margallus, Log. utriusque scholia, 1520, 146).

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