Sentence examples for formulating this argument from inspiring English sources

It needs to be kept in mind here that in formulating this argument for the existence of propositions, platonists do not commit to the view that all 'that'-clauses are singular terms that denote propositions.

To formulate this argument though, we have to turn to the semantics of epistemic logic, rather than its axioms and derivation rules.

Ludwig von Mises, an Austrian economist, formulated this same argument in a universal form when he identified the Achilles heel of socialism.

This way of formulating the argument is based on a Platonist view of propositions, according to which there are such things as propositions, which are abstract objects distinct from the sentences that can express them, and which are the fundamental bearers of the truth values.

Now as it's formulated here, this argument doesn't rule out the view that 'that'-clauses refer to mentalese sentence types, but the argument can be extended to rule out that view as well (e.g., one might do this by talking not of an American and a Russian but of two creatures with different internal languages of thought).

Thus formulated, the argument is valid.

Blackburn formulated the argument in terms of moral properties, as follows.

Moreover, even when we zero in on arithmetic, there are still many different ways to formulate the argument.

As usually formulated, the argument from evil is based on what appears to be a false presumption.

There are no doubt other factors that need to be taken into consideration in the calculation required to formulate the argument from divisiveness.

To avoid any hint of the Fallacy of Composition and to avoid these complications, Koons (198 99) formulates the argument for the contingency of the universe as a mereological argument.