Sentence examples for contrary proposition from inspiring English sources

But aside from the hyenas, which show up only in a precredit sequence, "Gendernauts" seems devoted to a contrary proposition.

He offered alleged proofs of the two propositions that the universe had a beginning and is of finite extent (the thesis) and also of a contrary proposition (the antithesis).

Coherentists who do not believe that the specified set is the set of propositions believed by an omniscient being are committed to rejection of the principle of bivalence since it is not the case that for every proposition either it or a contrary proposition coheres with the specified set.

The benefits of believing a proposition can rationally take precedence over the evidential strength enjoyed by a contrary proposition; and so, given an infinite expected utility, Pascal's Wager contends that forming the belief that God exists is the rational thing to do, no matter how small the likelihood that God exists.

Central to Poincaré's analysis of arithmetic is the principle of recurrence, or mathematical induction, which he considered to be a synthetic a priori principle that is "imposed upon us with such a force that we could not conceive of the contrary proposition" (Poincaré 1902: 74; 1913b: 64).

In the antinomies section of the Critique of Pure Reason, he shows that, for every "proof" of an important metaphysical proposition, such as determinism, atomism, or the eternity of the universe, a proof of the contrary proposition, such as the existence of exceptions to mechanical causality, infinite divisibility, or the temporal finitude of the world can be supplied.

And in the months and years to come, from the pace and direction of economic growth, employment, and national wealth in the United Kingdom, and from changes in the ratio of companies choosing a base in London against those electing to relocate to Frankfurt or Paris, we will be able to deduce which of the two contrary propositions was correct.

EADP requires that we eliminate any genuine grounds for doubt and those include more than mere contraries (propositions which are such that they both cannot be true, but they both could be false).

Unless we are to treat all Muslims as being somehow complicit in the attack, a guilt-by-association proposition contrary to every principle of fairness, any bar to the construction proceeding would be reprehensible.

But the propositions that he holds about what the true last end or ultimate destiny of human beings actually is belong to category (iii) and cannot be affirmed on any philosophical basis, even though philosophy, he thinks, can demonstrate that they are neither incoherent nor contrary to any proposition which philosophy shows must be affirmed.

expresses the idea that the subject's evidence does not entail what is said to be known hence, it does not entail that every proposition contrary to p is not true.[23] According to Stanley, however, this is not the best reading of the possibility clauses CKAs contain.