Computationally oriented psychologists began to think of memories as being stored as what they called "propositional representations", or just "propositions".
We have manners," Peggy, the pony-tailed secretary, scolds the colleague who has just propositioned her in "Mad Men," the new drama on the cable channel AMC.
If, as seems plausible, the underlying truths for the sentence are just propositions stating what physical objects are in the vicinity of Jupiter and what their motions are, then the sentence is ontologically committed only to those physical objects, not to numbers.
(It may be possible to get the same results without denying that propositions are the bearers of modal properties by offering a nonstandard semantics of modal adverbs like 'necessarily' and 'contingently' according to which they ascribe properties — the property of being true in every/some world, say — to propositions but are sensitive to more than just the proposition they operate on.
According to the polls, it might just pass.The proposition has a chance of winning mainly because Californians have become rather relaxed about weed.
Now 47, she lives in California and married her longtime partner in 2008, just before Proposition 8 overturned the state's short-lived same-sex marriage law.
On Stalnaker's account, to determine just which proposition is ascribed by a particular belief report, we must answer three questions.
As noted parenthetically just after Proposition A.2, free solvable groups (mathrm{FSol} k,ell )) are not linear when (k ge 2) and (ell ge 3) [142] 142].
I wouldn't have said yes to just any proposition, but with these perspectives, I was ready for a new adventure in a foreign country--but this time with a partner!
Our grant application, and the True Health Initiative, are devoted to just this proposition -- so here's to their success.
