Sentence examples for of certain propositions from inspiring English sources

Ekthesis, (Greek: "to expose," or "to set forth"), in logic, process used by Aristotle to establish the validity of certain propositions or syllogisms.

They proposed "new methods" or "rules of reasoning" that guide the generation of certain propositions from observed and experimental phenomena.

But in doing this it loses the appeal of the direct realist account Price seems to work with of certain propositions or facts being immediately present to the mind.

Unlike many Christians who treat their faith as a system of certain propositions, Polkinghorne believes that the most authentic faith -- the one he finds in the Bible -- co-exists with doubt.

While discussion is beyond the scope of this paper, the "second event" theory [ 72], and the "bystander effect" exhibited by low level radiation [ 73, 74] are, newly, the basis for serious re-consideration of certain propositions previously much more widely held as true).

As for free-thinking being a duty, Collins responds that it is so only in cases where those who contend "for the Necessity of all Men's assenting to certain Propositions, must allow that men are qualify'd to do so" (ibid).

Religion, Wittgenstein thought, is a matter not of holding certain propositions (as in, say, "I believe that Christ sits in Heaven at the right hand of God") but of inhabiting certain religious practices (charitable activity, turning the other cheek, playing the organ in church).

Truth is grounded "upon this necessity of Union and Connexion of Ideas in certain Propositions" (67).

Nor does the universal proposition assert that some class relation holds between A and B – the assertion of a class relation is just a way of saying that certain propositions are true.

And he condemned certain propositions of Henry's Constitutions of Clarendon.

In the case of ethics, the imprecision is related to the meaning of ethical propositions, and should reflect the degree of match between the denotative and connotative meanings of the same value, while uncertainty refers to the degree of belief we have in the truth of a certain proposition.