Sentence examples for proposition according to from inspiring English sources

But even it is a money-losing proposition, according to a study by two economists at Johns Hopkins University, Bruce W. Hamilton and Peter Kahn.

If rush matting is no longer a solution to domestic hygiene gone wild, it remains a "difficult" proposition, according to Richard Zolt of the New York-based Stark Carpet, which represents Waveney.

Steven Motlop (sore from leg bruising), Steve Johnson (foot soreness) and Allen Christensen (back soreness and a "day to day proposition" according to the club) are also operating at suboptimal levels.

It would be "a very difficult proposition," according to Smith, and an "ugly match-up," in the words of Murray.

A key necessary condition for knowing a proposition, according to Chisholm, was that the proposition be evident.

Not only should (12) and (17) express the same proposition, according to DQR, they should also have the same logical form.

The final stage involved ranking of these propositions according to the available evidence.

George Bealer has a conception of unstructured propositions according to which they are sui generis irreducible intensional entities.

There is a conception of propositions according to which they are sets of worlds (see e.g. Stalnaker 1976).

A theory may have implicit ontological commitments by entailing existential sentences or propositions according to some entailment relation more generous than logical entailment (see §1.5 and §2).

Soames [1987] concludes that we ought to give up the view that propositions are sets of worlds of any sort, and embrace an account of propositions according to which propositions are structured entities, with individuals, properties and relations as constituents.