Sentence examples for prior proposition from inspiring English sources

The prior proposition has several implications.

Just as in geometrical analysis, the idea is to 'hypothesize' some supposedly prior proposition (e.g. that virtue is knowledge) by means of which the proposition under consideration (e.g. that virtue comes from teaching) can be demonstrated.

Bbs8 and Bbs9 are seemingly expressed at the point where actin filaments are polymerized (Fig.  5D and Supplementary Material, Fig. S3), further supporting our prior proposition that BBS proteins are involved in actin regulation.

If the majority judgment on p is consistent with collective judgments on prior propositions, this majority judgment prevails; otherwise the collective judgment on p is determined by the implications of prior judgments.

In the context of modal logic, Prior called such propositions possible-world-propositions.

That is, as with Prior, a singular proposition p about some (actually existing) individual a should be true in a world story w only if the proposition [a exists] is also true in w — or, as Prior would put it, only if 'a exists' is statable in w.

telephone is behind (the lattice) 'Is the telephone behind (the lattice)?' In order to incrementally construct the sentence frame of a Polish polar interrogative, the interrogative mood should be syntactically encoded prior to the proposition.

Prior to this proposition [ 6], nothing was known about phylogenetic relationships among these 18 incertae sedis genera, except for two studies involving Caiapobrycon, Creagrutus and Piabina [ 15, 16].

This means that you must either accept Morrigan's proposition prior to the final battle, or have Alistair fight the Archdemon at the end.

While the principles did win an early adherent in Patzig (1968), subsequent criticisms by Corcoran (1972, 1974) and, independently, Smiley (1974) established clearly that syllogisms are not propositions but inferences, and that Aristotle had no need of a prior logic of propositions.

This was followed by De interpretatione (on propositions), Prior Analytics (on syllogism) and Posterior Analytics (on proof).