The van is a one-of-a-kind proposition right down to its forbidden license plate, a paper facsimile of which rests on the dashboard, strategically obscuring the standard plate — DWY8968 — the department issued him after revoking the GETOSAMA plates its custom plates unit sent out, apparently in error, in November.
In the correspondence Collingwood replies to Ryle by claiming that that there is a third kind of proposition, propositions which employ philosophical concepts.
They propose to account for the truth of truthbearers of certain kinds, propositions, not by way of their correspondence to facts, but by way of the correspondence to facts of other items, the ones that have propositions as their contents.
Ryle's main reason for rejecting the ontological proof lies in the endorsement of the Humean fork, according to which there are only two kinds of propositions, propositions concerning relations of ideas, which are necessary and hypothetical, and propositions concerning matters of fact, which are existential and contingent.
He saw clearly that, as the first kind of proposition is governed by the principle of contradiction (a proposition and its negation cannot both be true), the second is governed by the principle of sufficient reason (nothing exists or is the case without a sufficient reason).
And if James is right that there is a kind of proposition that has as a truth-maker its being believed, what we might call "dependent truths," then proposition (9) looks well supported.
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".
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".
Very much a low-budget, midnight-movie kind of proposition for the first two Mad Maxes, building up to something of Hollywood stature for the third, there's no mistaking the pressure this time.
