Sentence examples for general propositions from inspiring English sources

Colin Maclaurin (1698 1746), for instance, reconstructed the essential structure of the method as having complementary analysis and synthesis phases, one proceeding away from the phenomena in generalization, the other from the general propositions to derive explanations of new phenomena.

He doesn't begin with general propositions and apply them indiscriminately to every policy decision.

The slogan of what Carl Hempel called "the narrow inductivist account of scientific inquiry" is "seeing is believing"; first you look around and see what's there, then you formulate general propositions of theory or belief.

From an early period the Greeks formulated the objectives of mathematics not in terms of practical procedures but as a theoretical discipline committed to the development of general propositions and formal demonstrations.

Mill made here the fundamental distinction between deduction and induction, defined induction as the process for discovering and proving general propositions, and presented his "four methods of experimental inquiry" as the heart of the inductive method.

According to these rules, general propositions are established by deducing them from the phenomena.

That's a general proposition.

I don't know about that as a general proposition.

"As a general proposition, we think he ought to go," he said.

"As a general proposition, religious observance is an extremely important value," he said.

But there's no point in arguing the general proposition that many women love horses.