Sentence examples for identical proposition from inspiring English sources
Rep. 674, that identical proposition was urged, and was decided to be without merit; and the same doctrine was reiterated in the cases of American Exp.
In 1864 Jevons listed this as a postulate (1890, p. 11) and then in §24 he referred to $A = A$ as a "useless Identical proposition".
He says, "I hold this identical proposition, differentiated only by the emphasis, to be an axiom, namely, that what is not truly one being is not truly one being either" (letter to Arnauld, 30 April 1687).
He writes to Arnauld: "To be brief, I hold as axiomatic the identical proposition which varies only in emphasis: that what is not truly one being is not truly one being either" (30 April 1687).
Implicit here is a version of the PC which states that for any proposition P if P is or is reducible to an identical proposition, then P is necessarily true (6 above, with the modality of necessity added).
As Reid puts the point in the above quotation, the claim that people always act on their strongest motive when strength is associated with prevalence is 'an identical proposition.' It is true but trivial, and it fails to show that people are not the efficient causes of their own behavior.
The selection of amendments would be based on (highly flexible) criteria, like the breadth of support, and the distinctiveness of each possible alternative; it is unlikely that the Speaker would choose two almost identical propositions for example.
Two identical propositions followed, and were defeated, in 1877 and 1880.
This drastically reduced the barriers to adoption faced by competitors like GoPayment, which had a virtually identical value proposition.
Last year, Michigan passed an initiative identical to Proposition 209, and, thanks to Connerly, several other states are likely to vote on such proposals next year.
If J = D and T satisfies (C5), then (C1 - C5) are identical and, by Proposition 3.4(c), for each u0 ∈ X, a sequence (u m : m ∈ {0} ∪ ℕ) is Cauchy and thus convergent.
