Sentence examples for proposition in general from inspiring English sources

In order to be able to apply these notions in a useful way, we have to explain how to count the variants of a proposition, since for each variant of a proposition (as for each proposition in general) there are infinitely many others that are logically equivalent to it (e.g., due to replacing a part [b] of the proposition by [non-non-b], [non-non-non-non-b] etc).

The apparent difficulty of sustaining such a view of belief is often held to reflect badly on the a coarse-grained possible-worlds view of propositions in general, since it's generally thought that one of the principal metaphysical functions of propositions is to serve as the contents of belief and other "propositional attitudes" (e.g., Field 1978; Soames 1987).

According to Bolzano, the ground-consequence relation holds only between truths, not between propositions in general.

In the next chapter Strawson asks the very interesting and novel question whether, just as the employment of (the core type of) subject expressions presupposes empirical information, there is a type of proposition the truth of which is presupposed by subject-predicate propositions in general.

Second, conspiracy thinking was clearly linked to climate denial -- and to the rejection of scientific propositions in general.

On another view, the existence of a proposition is in general world-relative.

The converse of the previous proposition is in general false, that is, the concavity of m does not imply the convexity of (m^).

This supports the proposition that in general molecular electronic properties cannot be directly related to inhibition effectiveness – the actual relation is more involved – thus emphasizing the importance of a rigorous modeling of the inhibitor surface interaction in the corrosion inhibition studies.

The proof of the above proposition in the general case see [26, Theorem 7].

The correspondence theory, in contrast, states that the truth conditions of propositions are not (in general) propositions, but rather objective features of the world.

Proposition 5.24 seems to be less efficient than Proposition 5.23 in general, but it is convenient in the case (p=2).