Sentence examples for evaluative propositions from inspiring English sources

(This distinction roughly tracks Julie Dickson's distinction between directly evaluative propositions and indirectly evaluative propositions. See Dickson 2001, 51 55).

In that case, a sentence like 'Ronald McDonald does not exist' either expresses a fully articulate singular proposition and so is false, as in that case there is a referent of the subject-place singular term which exists, or does not express a truth evaluative proposition at all, as the singular term lacks a semantic content.

If they maintained that the content of the evaluative proposition is either identical with the volition or causes it, then they were confusing the "moral motive" with the "physical efficient," the physical efficient being the element of the cause that provides the active power (D 73, W 2.565).

On the other hand, if Clarke's opponents maintained that, not the evaluative proposition, but one's perceiving, judging or otherwise believing it is the cause (or a partial cause) of volition, then they were falling foul of a basic causal principle.

This category includes all the propositions that contain evaluative verbs related to creativity (in chemistry classes).

(As Francis Snare observes, on this reading Hume must simply assume that no purely factual propositions are themselves evaluative, as he does not argue for this).

Implicit attitudes on the other hand may change only when new associations are formed through evaluative conditioning or when new propositions ingrain into new associations.

Decisive commitment in the absence of such assurance may nevertheless be possible, motivated (as Swinburne suggested in the first edition of his Faith and Reason) by the evaluative belief that 'unless [faith-propositions are true], that which is most worthwhile is not to be had' (Swinburne, 1981, 117).

"Individuals need evaluative information about others to evaluate themselves".

Importantly, Gawronski and Bodenhausen argue that a simple negation of existing propositions will not result in changes in evaluative associations (see Gawronski and Bodenhausen 2006 for a detailed description of how implicit and explicit attitudes may change).

This interpretation requires him to be read as understanding the correctness of love and other evaluative attitudes as something other than the truth of some proposition on which they are founded.