Sentence examples for false proposition of from inspiring English sources

As noted by Kirk and Shahzad [21], an assertion in the proof of Lemma 13 given in [22] was based on a false proposition of Holmes [23].

The use of variable functors with liberal substitution enables a number of principles of propositional logic to be given startlingly compressed and elegant formulations, for example the principle of bivalence in the form which can be read as "if something is true of a false proposition then if it true of a true proposition, it is true of any proposition" (C00 is a true proposition).

Mackie described Anderson as the last of the Aristotelian logicians and observed some awkward consequences for his conception of logic: the problem of false propositions; the absence of a way of dealing with singular propositions; an inability to deal with multiple quantification; the difficulty in expressing relational propositions in subject-predicate and syllogistic form.

Let B be a false proposition with a number of worlds tightly clustered around a world z maximally distant from actuality.

A credence of 1 in a false proposition will get a Brier score of 1 the worst score possible.

For Mackie, any logic dealing with false propositions, relations of contradiction and contrariety, entertained arguments, falsifications and reductions ad absurdum must be something more than an account of propositions as what is there (Mackie 1985).

When we think about something that is false, say, Zermela is a cat, we are not thinking about a false proposition, but rather the objects of our thought are just Zermela and the property of being a cat.

Necessity, in logic and metaphysics, a modal property of a true proposition whereby it is not possible for the proposition to be false and of a false proposition whereby it is not possible for the proposition to be true.

And what is (if anything is) the significate of a false proposition?

If no real proposition matches spoken, written, and mental propositions that are false, what is grasped when we understand the meaning of a false proposition?

One does not necessarily make a step toward the truth by reducing the content of a false proposition.