Sentence examples for expressed a different proposition from inspiring English sources
(1) would have expressed a different proposition, a proposition about Charles and so false, were David to have uttered it in the described situation.
We now express a different proposition by "~A⇒B", with different truth conditions, governed by a new nearness relation.
Yet Daniels utters a sentence that expresses a different proposition depending on whether the actual world is like i or like j.
Hill expressed a different opinion.
What explains the impression that a sentence like (1) expresses an a posteriori claim is the fact that the proposition asserted by a typical utterance of the sentence is not the one that is semantically expressed by it, but a different proposition that is contingent and can only be known empirically.
As different possibilities are live in different conversational settings, a different proposition may be expressed by "If A, B" in different conversational settings.
Each row of the matrix thus represents a different proposition that might be literally expressed by the sentence.
"I am sitting" expresses the proposition that Moe is sitting in a context with Moe as speaker, a different proposition, that Curley is sitting, in a context with Curley as speaker.
Iran is a different proposition.
"Ours is a different proposition.
Zaide was a different proposition.
