Sentence examples for ingenious proposition from inspiring English sources

For example, Buridan, Sophismata VIII.13, concerns the ingenious proposition 'Socrates knows the proposition written on the wall to be doubtful to him', where it is supposed that this proposition is the only proposition written on the wall, that Socrates sees it and is in a state of doubt about its truth, and that furthermore Socrates knows he is in that state of doubt.

Herzberger (1975), developed an ingenious logical strategy, using some possibilities offered by Emil Post's theory of twofold propositions, to come up with what he termed a "resourceful nominalism," one that would explain how predicates applied non-arbitrarily to individual things, that would account for our naïve semantic intuitions, and nonetheless avoid ontological commitment to universals.

Very ingenious".

And it is ingenious.

But he was ingenious.

The ingenious asparagus peeler.

"How ingenious, Anton!

Humans are ingenious.

It seemed overly ingenious.

This was ingenious.

But also ingenious.