He thus maintained that sentences containing logically proper names express singular propositions.
Until then, major Bible translations in English had taken an approach now known as "formal equivalence," striving to maintain the sentence structure, phrasing, and idioms of the original Hebrew and Greek.
But, again, fictionalists do not believe that there is such a thing as the number 4, and so they maintain that sentences like "4 is even" are not literally true.
But prison reform groups maintain the sentences are effective.
Let us move on now to immanent-realist, or physicalist, views of mathematics, and let us concentrate first on views like Mill's (1843, book II, chapters 5 and 6), i.e., views that maintain that sentences about numbers are really just general claims about bunches of ordinary objects.
Bahrain Centre for Human Rights maintained that the sentences were based on confessions extracted under torture and the testimony of the alleged torturers.
The Hague court cannot impose the death penalty or a life sentence, so an 80-year sentence, Griffiths maintained, was "manifestly excessive" and "outlandish".
Mr. Manzie, now 19 and serving a 70-year sentence, has maintained that he invited the three or four encounters he had with Mr. Simmons.
The principal and a school manager, who received a 10-year sentence, had maintained "a register of ghost students" in the name of a school that had ceased to exist in 1977, according to the report.
It maintained a 50-year sentence was not "reflective of the inherent gravity of the totality of his criminal conduct and overall culpability" and should be increased to 80 years.
