Sentence examples for obvious proposition from inspiring English sources

IT IS SUCH AN OBVIOUS proposition in a finite world: things run out.

The latest, presented at the recent annual meeting of the Organisation for Human Brain Mapping, in Florence, Italy, starts from the obvious proposition that the longer you stay awake, the more you learn.

This seemingly obvious proposition is bitterly opposed by a faction led by former president Alvaro Uribe, who argues that it equalises the actions of the state and illegal armed groups.

However, it seems that 'OK Glass' was not an immediately obvious proposition as Amanda Rosenberg – the marketing manager for Glass – has revealed in a blog-post how the hot word came about and what the other choices mooted by the Glass team were.

First, we state the following obvious proposition.

The last great Platonist and Euclidean commentator of antiquity, Proclus (c. 410 485 ce), attributed to the inexhaustible Thales the discovery of the far-from-obvious proposition that even apparently obvious propositions need proof.

I want to begin with three fairly obvious propositions that are also misgivings about the right to happiness or its pursuit.

My three fairly obvious propositions are: first, in Freud's formulation from Civilisation and its Discontents, "happiness is something essentially subjective" (subjective I take it, in the sense of being not only personal but idiosyncratic).

We saw that in the run-up to Iraq, where perfectly obvious propositions – the case for invading is very weak, the occupation may well be a nightmare – weren't so much rejected as ruled out of discussion altogether; if you even considered those possibilities, you weren't a serious person, no matter what your credentials.

That seems an obvious enough proposition.

The converse is obvious from Proposition 4.10 and Theorem 4.13.