Sentence examples for proposition as in from inspiring English sources

Desjardins has described A Provisional Proposition as "in part, a tribute to Brazilian conceptual artist, Lydia Clark's (1920-1988) Caminhando piece".

On the other hand, gratitude terms are sometimes followed by the word "that" and a proposition, as in Y is grateful that p, where p represents some state of affairs Y finds beneficial.

In addition, the TN condition expressed the true meaning with a negation, falsifying the desired proposition, as in (9) 沒有遠離 méiyǒu__yuǎnlí not__far-away was not far away  .

(Williamson admits (2007, pp. 195 6) that (2c) is not a completely adequate formalization of the anaphora in the ordinary language subjunctive he seeks to capture—"If a thinker were to stand to a proposition as in the Gettier text, he/she would have justified belief in it without knowledge").

The court's clarification of the status of Lord Nicholls' fourth "non-controversial" proposition (as set out in Tse Wai Chun Paul v Albert Cheng in 2001) is very welcome.

We make this principle more formal in the following proposition, as was done for example in [16].

There are, of course, dangers, in regarding propositions as structured.

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).

That is, question-meanings cannot just be defined as arbitrary sets of propositions, as in the theories of Hamblin (1973) and Karttunen (1977).

Given (1) and (2) we should have a type of propositions (as in simple type theory), and given (3) this should also be the type of all types.

There are other accounts of propositions, or things that are intended to do the work of propositions, as in the previously mentioned example of Bealer [1993], that are not structured proposition accounts (given the way that term is used here), but that allow for distinct necessarily equivalent propositions or things that are to do the work of propositions.