Sentence examples for kind of proposition from inspiring English sources

Yet this kind of proposition is now receiving serious consideration.

What kind of proposition will Mario Balotelli be when he's really warmed up for it?

"All my plays have a kind of proposition about the theatre.

Mr. Henderson said the content marketing deal with Complex Media was "a single year kind of proposition," adding, "Like anything we have, we hope it's a hit".

That was the same kind of proposition, to Caldwell's mind: a chance to chase clients' needs into an arena where the firm had no skills advantage.

Simon Usherwood, politics researcher at Surrey University, says EU funds are more reliable than the whims of the party's best-known donors: "It is not an Arron Banks [Ukip donor] 'how do I feel today' kind of proposition".

After that, delegates can vote on anything — even the kind of propositions that have so hobbled the government in California.

From this it follows that there must be propositions, since "truths in themselves" are a certain kind of propositions (WL I, 111 f).

According to Hume, the mind is capable of apprehending two kinds of proposition or truth: those expressing "relations of ideas" and those expressing "matters of fact".

The widespread combination of probabilis with particular kinds of proposition (Aristotelian endoxa; see Section 3.1) and of verisimilis with signs are nevertheless good reasons to assume that these predicates were not synonymous.

The obvious consequence of these rules is that, with the only exception of insolubilia, which are called false not because they signify the false, but because they affirm themselves to be false or not to be true, all the other kinds of proposition are true if and only if what they signify is true, and false if and only if what they signify is false (ibidem, p. 64).