Sentence examples for former propositions from inspiring English sources

If we compare the impossible groups with some former propositions (for instance by pruning the tree of life recently published by Cicarelli et al. from the groups we were missing), we observed that the group of Spirochaetes and actinobacteria (supported by less than 40%% of BV) is not rejected, while the group of cyanobacteria/aquifex-thermotoga (supported by 40 to 80%% of BV) is rejected.

Gandhi preferred to say that the truth is God rather than God is the truth, because the former proposition expresses a belief that even the atheists share.

(Suppose we drew an Euler diagram for the former proposition and try to add a new compatible piece of information, i.e., the latter, to this existing diagram).

The former proposition follows from the repeated observation that prior discussions between patients and proxies about treatment preferences often lead to higher levels of agreement [ 6, 28].

The former can be intuited i.e., seen directly or deduced from other propositions.

The other propositions failed.

Another set of considerations pushing Russell towards the rejection of his former view of propositions is more straightforwardly metaphysical.

During the period in which Russell was working on Principia Mathematica, most likely in 1907, Russell also radically revised his former realism about propositions understood as mind independent complexes.

Kilwardby is also responsible for propagating, if not developing, the distinction between material and formal logic, where the former treats of propositions and its parts (namely the categories), while the latter treats the deductive structure of argumentation.

But on the present view, the former expresses a proposition that has as a constituent a propositional function mapping an object to the proposition that that object is unmarried; the latter does not.

But to its sponsors, like former Governor Wilson, Proposition 21 includes education and rehabilitation programs directed at nonviolent juvenile offenders and the empowerment of district attorneys to directly charge juveniles as adults in cases of extreme violence.