Sentence examples for if it is true of from inspiring English sources

i.e., anything which is true of any set if it is true of all its elements is true of every set without exception.

To return to the example of natural numbers, we can express the Peano induction postulate by a second-order sentence: ∀X[X0 & ∀y Xy → XSy) → ∀y Xy] This sentence expresses the idea that X is true of all natural numbers, if it is true of 0 and its truth at some number y guarantees its truth at the successor of y, no matter what set of numbers X might be true of.

If it is true of Corbyn's Momentum army, could it also be true of Unite's general secretary?

Presumably that will also be true when she is deposed; and if it is true of Miss Lewinsky it will surely be so with Messrs Jordan and Blumenthal, both of them Clinton loyalists with a smooth line in verbal camouflage.A much more likely breach in the presidential defence, at least on the obstruction of justice charge, could have come from Mr Clinton's secretary, Betty Currie.

Both principles are prima facie extremely plausible: If it is true of some individual that the predicate "F" applies to it, then the predicate "F" applies to something.

With this interpretation, (7′) says "If it is true of every horse that the gate was closed or that horse left the corral, then the gate was closed or every horse left the corral".

And if it's true of advertising, it is also true of movies.

Such a property, if it were true of λ, would clearly show that λ is of little use as a formal theory.

If it were true of me that, were I fully informed I would desire some object which at present I have no desire for, giving me that object now would not benefit me.

Monopoly wouldn't be better if it was true to the actual layout of Atlantic City.

"If Christianity is not true," C.S. Lewis wrote, "it is of no importance whatsoever; if it is true it is of infinite importance.