Sentence examples for form a proposition from inspiring English sources
In general, the arity of a relation is the number of places it has, that is, the number of arguments it takes to form a proposition.
By combining subject and predicate to form a proposition, this approach can be seen as offering a more natural representation of ordinary language negation than the standard iterating operator that applies to fully formed propositions (Geach 1972, Englebretsen 1981, Horn 1989: Chap. 7, Sommers and Englebretsen 2000).
This restriction makes it impossible to form a proposition of the form P(P): the type of P should be of the form (A), and P can only be applied to arguments of type A, and thus cannot be applied to itself since A is not the same as (A).
For example the ZFA term 'melanocyte' (synonym 'melanophore') will form a proposition with the term 'melanophore' (synonym 'melanocyte') from XAO (Xenopus, Table 1 ).
For example, 'optic cup' of ZFA (zebrafish, Table 1 ) and 'optic cup' of EHDAA (human, Table 1 ) will form a proposition.
Such boundaries and exactness are the definitive traits of form be it Platonic form, Aristotelian form, or the general form of a proposition adumbrated in the Tractatus.
This suggested that the logical form of a proposition just is the grammatical form of some (perhaps mental) sentence.
As Frascolla (and Marion after him) have pointed out, "the general form of a proposition is a particular case of the general form of an 'operation'" (Marion 1998, p. 21), and all three general forms (i.e., of operation, proposition, and natural number) are modeled on the variable presented at (5.2522) (Marion 1998, p. 22).
Knowledge in the most usual sense of that word takes the form of a proposition, knowing that so-and-so is the case.
"The general form of a proposition is: This is how things stand" (TLP 4.5) and every proposition is either true or false.
Bertrand Russell held that these implications reflect the logical form of a proposition expressed (in a given context) with a definite description.
