Sentence examples for import of propositions from inspiring English sources

All necessity is verbal, a matter of the import of propositions.

But even the most devoted Cartesian would have had a hard time understanding the full import of propositions one through fifteen.

In "The Existential Import of Propositions" (Russell 1905a), the theory of denoting concepts is applied to the problem of vacuous singular terms.

Knowing the meaning of terms and therefore of the import of propositions is knowing the individuals and attributes which they denote and connote.

Rather, it may be that each of a number of functions Pα, Pβ, Pγ, …, etc., satisfying the constraints imposed by axioms 1-7 can represent a viable measure of the inferential import of propositions expressed by sentences of the language.

Where the import of a proposition is given by connotation, truth or falsity is determined by denotation.

Stalnaker (1984) endorses the possible-worlds view of propositions and imports it directly into his discussion of belief content: He contends the content of a belief is specified by the set of "possible worlds" at which that belief is true (see Lewis 1979 for a similar approach).

The church puts a number of propositions.

We conclude with the formulation of propositions.

A number of propositions are also provided.

Dialectical refutation cannot of itself establish any proposition (except perhaps the proposition that some set of propositions is inconsistent).