Sentence examples for over propositions from inspiring English sources

Prior insisted that propositional quantification should not be confused with either objectual quantification over propositions or substitutional quantification over sentences.

The question of how to develop an appropriate model theory for the language of quantified propositional logic is no substitute for the more substantive question of whether there is an intelligible interpretation of propositional quantification on which it is not construed as objectual quantification over propositions or substitutional quantification over sentences.

(This is sometimes expressed by saying that variables range over propositions, or that they take propositions as their values).

Or should it be assimilated to objectual quantification over propositions or maybe substitutional quantification over sentences?

The idea here is that one begins with some unproblematic resources that involve no quantification over propositions, concepts, and such.

Second there is a probability distribution P defined over propositions about the values of variables in V.

The advances were said to have taken place during a festive night in which Mr. Cain and several younger staff members drank until late in the evening, and his flirty banter with the woman crossed over into propositions that she leave with him, these people said, speaking in separate interviews and on the condition of anonymity.

It is just the latest turn in a protracted legal battle over Proposition 8, the voter-approved ban.

About $135 million was spent in the battle over Proposition 32, which would outlaw political donations by labor unions.

Van Sant's film chronicled the 1970s battle over Proposition 6, the Briggs Initiative, which Harvey Milk threw himself into fighting.

Dredging up the debates over Proposition 8, encapsulated in old news segments and familiar clips from cable gabfests, fails to impart new information or a sense of purpose.