Sentence examples for in a proposition from inspiring English sources

In fact, (1) signification consisted in the relation of a linguistic sign to what it signifies apart from any propositional context; (2) a word capable of standing for something else or for itself in a proposition had first to have signification; (3) a term only had supposition in a propositional context; and (4) the kind of supposition a term had depended on its propositional context.

Thus, in a proposition of the form "No S is P," both the subject and the predicate are distributed.

Disjunction, in logic, relation or connection of terms in a proposition to express the concept "or"; it is a statement of alternatives (sometimes called "alternation").

In a proposition such as (1) "Socrates is snub-nosed," the expression preceding the "is" names an individual and the expression following it stands for a property attributed to that individual.

But, in a proposition such as (2) "Socrates is the Athenian philosopher who drank hemlock," the expressions preceding and following the "is" both name individuals, and the sense of the whole proposition is that the individual named by the first is the same individual as the individual named by the second.

This indifference is grounded in a proposition that has for decades dominated American debate over redistributive policies like steeper taxes for the rich: that inequality is an expected outcome of economic growth, and that efforts to tamp down inequality would slow growth down.

"To me, it was a once-in-a-lifetime proposition.

According to Lehrer, a person is justified in accepting a proposition just in case that proposition coheres with the relevant part of her cognitive system.

The focus of this entry is intuitions mental states or events in which a proposition seems true in the manner of these propositions.

A central problem in epistemology is when we are justified in holding a proposition to be true.

Meyer appears uninterested in such a proposition.