Sentence examples for proposition itself from inspiring English sources

On such a conception, the truth-set of a proposition is the proposition itself, and issues about propositional existence remain: it may be held that propositions exist necessarily, or that their existence is in general world-relative.

One is free to vary the language in which a proposition is expressed but not the proposition itself.

The answers are not simple, as I suspect the debate will show.There will also, if past debates are a guide, be some argument about the wording of the proposition itself.

GERALDINE FABRIKANT THE LUXURY AISLE Barneys New York, the department store known for $10,000 suits, became an unexpectedly expensive proposition itself after a bidding war between companies from Japan and Dubai.

As much as Proposition 13 signaled a national revolt against taxes that reverberates to this day, its actual legacy in California — not just the proposition itself, but the way Mr. Brown and the Legislature responded to it — has emerged as a major obstacle to the new governor as he confronts what is probably the worst fiscal crisis in this state's history.

WHILE a proposal by Councilman Simcha Felder, a Democrat from Brooklyn, to ban the feeding of pigeons in New York City — and fine the violators — may speak to those who detest the humble rock dove, the proposition itself is sadly misguided.

Three workmen are building a scaffolding tower on the shingle, a comic proposition in itself.

I was in New York, walking up Broadway, the air cold and swift, when the proposition presented itself.

Progress in holding back the flood of cash is moderate everywhere, and Proposition 208 itself is not yet home and dry.

The coexistence of image and landscape would be a brilliant conceptual proposition by itself, but to have realised it with such grace and formal purity is a miracle: literally an apparition in the real.

However, after multiple, widely covered sensitive data breaches, security has become a value proposition in itself.