Sentence examples for indicated proposition from inspiring English sources

More importantly, Frege's treatment of quantified propositions departs radically from the traditional idea that the grammatical structure of sentence reflects the logical structure of the indicated proposition.

So Frege, Russell, and Wittgenstein all held in varying ways that psychological reports are also misleading with respect to the logical forms of the indicated propositions.

Such reports seem to indicate propositions that are neither atomic nor logical compounds of simpler propositions.

Clauses RCI1-RCI3 above render L1-L3 of definition 2.7 above in the formal language that underlies axioms CS1-CS5; while RCI4 affirms (cf. definition 2.6 above) that agents are symmetric reasoners, i.e. that if a proposition indicates another proposition to a certain agent, then it does so to all agents in the population.

Results on a power system of the open research indicate the proposition's suitability.

These words indicate a proposition that cannot be cast in the mold of Aristotle's oath-breaker.

If some such view is correct, it might avoid certain (unpleasant) questions prompted by earlier Fregean views: how can a sentence indicate a proposition with a different structure; and if grammar is deeply misleading, why think that our intuitions concerning impeccability provide reliable evidence about which propositions follow from which?

On the other hand, under balance billing patient welfare is generally higher by setting a fee different from f ^ p. Numerical simulations based the cost savings function (21) indicate that Proposition 4 can also be extended to optimally chosen fee levels.

This in turn reflects Russell's central claim viz., that while a speaker may refer to a certain boy in saying 'The boy sang', the boy in question is not a constituent of the proposition indicated.

From this perspective, studies of linguistic meaning and propositional structure still dovetail, even if natural language employs "conventions" that make it possible to indicate complex propositions with grammatically simple sentences; see the entry on analysis.

If 'respects every doctor' and 'respects some liar' indicate nonrelational proposition-parts, much like 'is sick' or 'is happy', then inference (11) has the following form 'Some P is S, and some D is L; so some P is H'.