Sentence examples for false propositions from inspiring English sources

So, the rejection of false propositions does not cause a serious problem for the theory of propositional functions in Russell.

Contingently true and contingently false propositions are known collectively as contingent propositions.

Similarly, false propositions can be divided into those like "2 + 2 = 5 that are false by logical necessity (impossible propositions), and those like "France is a monarchy"—that are not (contingently false propositions).

Steven Rose The explanatory gap A lifetime studying the neurobiology of learning and memory, and I still wonder about St Augustine's questions 1,600 years ago: "How does my brain/mind encompass vast regions of space and time, abstract thoughts and numbers, false propositions?" (Or for that matter the memory of my fourth birthday party or what I had for breakfast yesterday).

What they do instead is to create a counter-narrative of civility and respect that can be deployed in public discussions that threaten to get out of hand, and that may prove appealing to people who aren't temperamental bomb-throwers, or who haven't yet staked themselves to weird, inflammatory, and simply false propositions that are too cognitively embarrassing to retract.

False propositions cannot be known.

The propositional negation of a true proposition is a false proposition.

"The campaign against FGM could be undermined by a false proposition that the ill effects can be reversed.

A contingently true or false proposition is thus one that is true in some possible worlds and false in others (e.g., "France is a democracy").

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.

You only further perpetuate gender stereotypes, and subliminally bolster the false proposition that these stereotypes are biologically determined, when you use the word "girly" to describe such cultural artifacts.