When an answer is interpreted as exhaustive, the proposition it expresses is understood as exemplified by the topic situations.
In short, Augustine challenges the skeptic to convince him that such exhaustive, disjunctive propositions can be confused with, or have a likeness of, what is false.
When an answer is interpreted as non-exhaustive, the proposition it expresses is understood as being merely true in the topic situations.
The prosecution (scraping activity) and defence (rubbing activity) hypotheses are assumed to be mutually exclusive but not exhaustive, since the proposition that it is caused by another activity is not considered (Fenton et al. 2014).
Here too, all propositions are divided into three jointly exhaustive and mutually exclusive classes: every proposition is obligatory, optional, or impermissible, but no proposition falls into more than one of these three categories.
The three rectangular cells are jointly exhaustive and mutually exclusive: every proposition is either necessary, contingent, or impossible, but no proposition is more than one of these.
It can be argued that enough has been said about Donald Trump anyway, mostly by Mr. Trump himself, and that this exhaustive book is a no-win proposition.
Groenendijk and Stokhof (1984) take a question to denote, in each world, a single proposition embodying the true exhaustive answer to the question in that world.
We have, then: The proposition expressed by Beatrice's exhaustive answer in (53) is understood as exemplified by the topic situations determined by Josephine's question, and that implies that Jason and Willie were the only ones who caught anything.
In the supplement are provided twenty-five of his favorite propositions (the list is not exhaustive).
