Sentence examples for instance is true from inspiring English sources

As for counterfactuals, which appeal to what might have been, the counterfactual "If he hadn't pressed the alarm, she would have been killed," for instance, is true if there is a possible world in which he didn't press the alarm, and she was killed, that is more similar to our own world than one in which he pulled the cord and she wasn't killed.

Indeed, contextualists typically emphasize that each instance is true and so compel our assent.

A universally quantified sentence ∀xFx is true in a model if and only if each instance is true in the model.

Nia explained how this instance was true for her: Nia: I can't remember what cover it was, but she was on the cover of some magazine… and they said the dress was from Talbots.

This, for instance, was true for Gilbert Maxwell, the cleanup man in the Georgia shrimp factory.

Similarly, (∀x Fa is true if and only if at least one of its instances is true.

A proposition form is an expression of which the instances (produced as before by appropriate and uniform replacements for variables) are not inferences from several propositions to a conclusion but rather propositions taken individually, and a valid proposition form is one for which all of the instances are true propositions.

This formula is true if and only if all of its instances are true.

Axiom 5 says that a universally quantified sentence of the language of arithmetic is true if and only if all its numerical instances are true.

There is no general rule that politicians write about other politicians better than anyone else, but in this particular instance it is true.

For instance, it is true that we are awfully careful when we deliver intricately assembled cakes, but they are constructed very well, so thankfully I have never had the experience of having to fix a destroyed cake.