Sentence examples for curious proposition from inspiring English sources
But a Cornell professor recently claimed to have established the truth of a curious proposition: We fib less frequently when we're online than when we're talking in person.
The volume opens with a long-winded essay by another British philosopher, Roger Scruton, who submits the curious proposition that "the conflict between the Christian Enlightenment and pre-modern Islam" can be explained by our preference for wine and their preference for pot.
This curious proposition hearkens to the much debated meaning of "receiving the Torah before knowing what was written in it".[35] Levinas calls this sort of responsiveness the "Good beyond Being".
Mr. Obama apparently agrees with this curious proposition that has long been sacrosanct within the establishment: anyone who questions it is naive or... or is an isolationist.
"Like a great skeptical underground project," the gallery explains in a press release, "Shrigley's conceptual, idea-based art is a never-ending stream of curious propositions and eccentric moral dilemmas.
Thus did he hint at his curious selling proposition: because he is personally so wealthy, a fact about which he loves to boast, Trump himself is unaffected by business lobbyists and donations.
With this in mind, I was curious about Shuttleworth's opinion of the value proposition for Ubuntu versus other, more established enterprise Linux distributions like Red Hat and SUSE.
As Russell (1956, p. 223) later says, propositions seem to be at best "curious shadowy things" in addition to facts.
"The Boy Detective Fails," directed a little too loosely by Joe Calarco, is the more complicated proposition, with its convoluted tapestry of story lines and curious mixture of tones.
(It is curious that prior to Chapter XV Boole did not present any examples of arguments involving particular propositions).
