Sentence examples for empty proposition from inspiring English sources

The secret of life may be an empty proposition, but the secret of death is actually legible to those who possess the language and the tools.

Then the empty proposition is interpreted as the value false, and the maximal proposition (the set of all worlds in a structure) as the value true.

According to Kant, all such empty propositions contain "ideas of pure reason," which are either concepts of noumenal objects or else meta-concepts that posit "totalizing" extensions of the pure concepts of the understanding (A320/B377, A326 329/B382 386).

Another important application of the distinction between the constitutive and regulative uses of judgments concerns the precise semantic status of "empty" propositions (i.e., propositions lacking objective validity) that also have the same overall form as objectively valid synthetic a priori judgments.

THE Farmington Canal Greenway is a glass-half-full-half-empty proposition.

Finally, a ranking function ρ on A is regular just in case ρ(A) < ∞ for every non-empty or consistent proposition A in A. For more see Huber (2006), which discusses under which conditions ranking functions on fields of propositions induce pointwise ranking functions on the underlying set of possibilities.

But the truth of such indefinite propositions with empty subjects does not bear on the forms of propositions that occur in the square.

But let's have the kids crack up laughing as they watch their drunken dad try to proposition an empty wallet.