Sentence examples for distinct propositions from inspiring English sources

It can dismiss intuitions that fly beneath the radar of clear and distinct propositions, even perhaps on the wings of a poem's multivalent images.

Russell held that they are nevertheless distinct propositions (POM, 74).

It should be clear that necessarily equivalent sentences may express distinct propositions on Zalta's view.

This is why on such an account, 'Bachelors are unmarried males' and 'Brothers are male siblings' express distinct propositions: the propositions have different constituents.

A consequence of contextualism is that sentences containing 'knows' may express distinct propositions, depending on the conversational contexts in which they're uttered.

Stage theorists can claim that there are a host of distinct propositions corresponding to (10), each with a distinct momentary stage as subject constituent in whatever state the object is in at the time of its existence.

The Week also recorded digital sales of 26,283, but they are recorded separately by the ABC because it is sufficiently different from the print product to be regarded as an entirely distinct proposition.

In mixing the conventions of two founding arcade genres – the 2D shooter and the fight simulation – it presents a reasonably distinct proposition, where one-on-one battles see contestants showering each other in bullets and special attacks.

It is clear that Nozick intends to assert this further claim even though he does not explicitly recognize that it is a further and distinct proposition.

An utterance of the sentence 'Bush is sitting' on t expresses (R-101) while an utterance of that sentence on t' expresses the distinct proposition (R-102).

However, for every class of propositions, m, it is possible to generate a distinct proposition, such as the proposition that every proposition in m is true, in violation of Cantor's theorem.