Sentence examples for express propositions from inspiring English sources
This in turn raises difficult questions about what natural language expressions are, and how they can be used to express propositions; see section eight.
Certain wffs of LPC-with-identity express propositions about the number of things that possess a given property.
The gap says, or implies, that certain sentences fail to express propositions; deflationism says, or implies, that if those sentences did express propositions, they would have truth values.
And Frege held that we often do use natural language to express propositions.
Indeed, sentence types as such don't express propositions or possess truth conditions at all.
And there he denies that the sentences express propositions with truth values.
If the expressed propositions are unanalyzable, and thus logically independent, each should be compatible with the other.
It seems that in some passages (e.g. Prior Analytics 57b3), Aristotle considers that such statements expressing propositions of the form A→¬A or ¬A→A are contradictory.
In particular, cognitivists (or descriptivists) hold that ordinary moral sentences are best understood as factual assertions, expressing propositions that attribute moral properties (such as rightness or goodness) to things (such as actions or characters).
The theory of descriptions, because it treats "the F" as having no meaning in isolation, enables one to recognize sentences in which "the F" occurs as expressing propositions without incurring a commitment to denoting concepts.
Having raised more than $100,000, Mr. Seabrook entered the race this year with his slogan of "History in the Making," his campaign's expressed proposition of electing the first black congressman to represent the Bronx.
