Sentence examples for incomplete propositions from inspiring English sources

When we write sentential forms, we do not write incomplete propositions, because there are no such entities.

True demonstratives, such as 'she' and 'that', have no content in any context, and so the contents (in contexts) of sentences that contain them are propositional radicals (incomplete structured propositions).

Intuitively, the proposition that arithmetic is incomplete is distinct from the proposition that 2+2=4.

So analysis must terminate in propositions devoid of incomplete symbols.

In other words, arithmetic is incomplete, i.e. some propositions of arithmetic can be understood as valid; yet they cannot be proven within the frame of arithmetic.

Hence the proof of the Grünbaum conjecture given in [H. König, N. Tomczak-Jaegermann, Norms of minimal projections, J. Funct. Anal. 119 (1994) 253 280] which is based on Proposition 3.1 is incomplete.

Arguably, the modal fiction will be incomplete too: there will be some propositions such that neither they nor their negations will be true according to the fiction.

In keeping with the incomplete nature of the Aristotelian treatment of hypothetical propositions, Boole did not give a precise description of possible forms for his secondary propositions.

According to Stalnaker, there is nothing wrong in admitting impossible worlds taken as sets of propositions that are locally inconsistent and incomplete.

An incomplete sayable like 'writes' gets transformed into a proposition by being attached to a nominative case (ptôsis, Diog. Laert., 33G).

The notion of "incomplete symbol" seems less appropriate than "construction" in the case of propositional functions and propositions.