Sentence examples for known proposition from inspiring English sources

The following fact is well known: Proposition 3.4.

No amplification of the original known proposition, red, has come about.

On the supposition that one's evidence consists of those propositions that one knows, we can ask: what known proposition or propositions justify this belief, to the extent that it is justified?

Put the other way around: if evidence consists of facts or known propositions, then no body of evidence rules out any truth.

Experiences provide the occasion for our consciously believing the known propositions but not the basis for our knowledge of them (p. 52).

Propositions of this form were particularly important in discussions of philosophical theology in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries because it was believed that it was necessary that God know propositions of this type in order to exercise providential control over the free actions of created beings.

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.

It's an appeal by opponents of same-sex marriage, the backers of the 2008 California initiative known as Proposition 8, from a federal appeals court decision last February that declared the proposition unconstitutional.

The measure, known as Proposition, 19 would legalize, regulate and tax the sale of marijuana.

The voter initiative in California, known as Proposition 8, had done something similar, Judge Reinhardt wrote.

In this case, federal law superseded the California voter initiative known as Proposition 215.