Sentence examples for limits proposition from inspiring English sources

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The mayor should support the immediate appointment of a charter revision commission that would submit a term limits proposition directly to the voters in a citywide special election that could be held early next year.

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Right now you can only create brass "ring poems" – a fairly limiting proposition – from now until March 31st.

If I then believe objects, there are physical objects, because it is entailed by jar, I have conclusive reason for believing objects, a limiting proposition.

Still, Dretske might abandon the notion of a limiting proposition in favor of the notion of elusive propositions, and cite, in favor of his conclusive reasons view, and against K, the facts that we cannot know elusive claims but we can know things that imply them.

At a time when term-limit propositions are turning up on many ballots, and when public confidence in our elected officials may be drooping to an all-time low, we had just found a politician to cheer for.

So some limiting propositions are not elusive.

Can't we know limiting propositions?

According to Dretske (and perhaps Nozick as well), we cannot easily know that limiting propositions or heavyweight propositions are true.

We do have conclusive reason to believe some limiting propositions, such as that there are physical objects.

In particular, they will not be able to believe propositions attributing specific errors to them, and propositions that entail these off-limit propositions.

Yet nothing in the nature of the conclusive reasons account rules out our knowing limiting propositions using pseudocircular reasoning, which leaves his reservations mysterious.

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