Sentence examples for expressed propositions from inspiring English sources

If the expressed propositions are unanalyzable, and thus logically independent, each should be compatible with the other.

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.

But this does not affect the main point; 'every' seems to be a grammatical constituent of the verb phrase 'likes every doctor', and yet the main quantifier of the expressed proposition.

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.

But let's assume that declarative sentences can be used to express propositions.

Simply put this thesis denies that predicative moral sentences express propositions or have substantial truth conditions.