Sentence examples for focus on propositions from inspiring English sources

Rimini's answer is a version of the opinio communis, a position with roots in Scotus and the Parisian tradition but which Ockham and later Oxford scholars refined with their focus on propositions.

A more moderate example is Wayne Riggs's (2003) argument that fertile territory for VE lies beyond the standard "focus on propositions, truth, justification and knowledge," in the domain of other intellectual values and goods, such as understanding and wisdom.

These focused on propositions about comparative "names"—e.g., large and small.

Day One focuses on Proposition 8, California's ban on same-sex marriage.

The latest brief, filed late Thursday, does not, however, ask the court to declare such bans unconstitutional nationwide; instead, it focused on Proposition 8, which was approved by voters in 2008 and is before the court in this case.

But for the purposes of my argument today, we can focus on three propositions that are most commonly understood to represent the core of neo-conservative thinking: First, a realistic appreciation of the scale of the threat the world faces from terrorism.

We focus on six propositions with which we try to define the boundaries and limitations of the shrinking city literature.

In all the site seems to be trying to do too many things at once, and could probably do with more focus on one compelling proposition.

The following section will focus on one type of proposition (statement) and one type of proposal (command), and the use of mood and modality in realizing these two speech functions and building a certain image of the speaker.

As a first step, the skeptics will focus on another proposition, about which you are likely to agree that you don't know it.

Aristotle's logic focused on quantificational propositions; and as we shall see, this was prescient.