In this case, none of the machinery on which Proposition 7 is based can be applied.
The resulting view is one on which the proposition expressed by a sentence like 'The inventor of bifocals was bald' has neither a Fregean sense nor the referent of the subject-position term as a constituent.
It's worth emphasizing, however, that the very same sentence asserted in a different conversational context could express an entirely different empirical proposition: just which proposition is expressed, on this metasemantic account, depends on what the individual parties to the conversation are currently presupposing about the meanings of the expressions used.
On the favoured reading (on which the proposition Homer might have believed is non-trivial), (13) provides a counterexample to the proposed rule that names take scope over metaphysical modals (there might, of course, be a more complex rule in play that can explain both judgments viz. that names take scope over metaphysical modals unless doing so will cause them to scope over an attitude verb).
68 However, critical evaluation of the evidence on which this proposition is based suggests that the contingent negative variation does not index interval timing mechanisms, but rather expectation, response preparation, or decision-making processes that are time dependent.
Incongruous with its 1960s-inspired sound, "Let's Take a Walk" has sexually forward lyrics and come-ons, which the narrator uses to bluntly proposition his love interest.
This is because the natural account of the negation of a proposition in such a space says that it holds on the largest open set contained in the Boolean complement of the set of points on which the original proposition held, which is in general smaller than the Boolean complement.
Nevertheless, Newton later confessed that the correspondence with Hooke led him to demonstrate that an elliptical orbit entails an inverse square attraction to one focus one of the two crucial propositions on which the law of universal gravitation would ultimately rest.
The San Francisco Chronicle also reported Brown's support for a proposition on which the Governor has so far kept mum: Proposition 34, California's landmark death penalty repeal.
