Sentence examples for elusive proposition from inspiring English sources
Though the term is invoked in the arts probably more than in any of the other fields from which the MacArthur Foundation chooses fellows, you could argue that defining genius is a more elusive proposition in the arts than in the sciences.
Still, Dretske might abandon the notion of a limiting proposition in favor of the notion of elusive propositions, and cite, in favor of his conclusive reasons view, and against K, the facts that we cannot know elusive claims but we can know things that imply them.
Art is the conjuring of ideas and emotions, and the touchstone for their reality is far more elusive than for scientific propositions — but these ideas and emotions are nonetheless as real as the objects that are photographed or represented or described in order to evoke them.
So some limiting propositions are not elusive.
Still, her victory upended the traditional notion that men like elusive women, suggesting a more radical proposition: that men like women who like them.
Affirmations carried certainty and elucidated what could be showed but not said, they provided the elusive confrontation or correspondence between theoretical propositions and facts of reality.
Deeper consensus about the statements inherent in the passage of Proposition 47 will probably prove elusive.
Still, regulating an elusive art form like music was a slippery proposition, and when the Soviet Union collapsed, Denisov stood with Alfred Schnittke and Sofia Gubaidulina in a triumvirate of the leading post-Shostakovich Soviet composers.
