Sentence examples for proposition the number from inspiring English sources

The proposition the number of planets in our solar system is 9 may be false, but quite a bit closer to the truth than the proposition that the number of planets in our solar system is 9 billion.

The true proposition the number of the planets is between 7 and 9 inclusive is closer to the truth than the true proposition that the number of the planets is greater than equal to 0. (So a truth may be closer to the truth than another truth).

Because evidence mapping outputs have stand-alone merit and application, the GEM evidence mapping process, like previously published evidence mapping methods, is not an 'all or nothing' proposition; the number of steps undertaken and the breadth of the topic area covered can therefore vary according to available resources.

There are many propositions that we are capable of entertaining e.g., the proposition that the number of people alive at this precise moment is even where there is not the slightest reason for thinking them to be either true or false (though, of course, they must be one or the other).

The proposition that the number of planets is eight for example, should have the same degree of truthlikeness as the proposition that the square of the number of the planets is sixty four.

The proposition that the number of planets is 9 is false, but it comes as close to the truth as any false proposition can come.

It is shown that this proposition overestimates the number of chromatographic plates by a factor of at least 5 and typically about 30.

Named for the Intel co-founder Gordon Moore, Moore's Law is the proposition that the number of transistors on a semiconductor can be inexpensively doubled about every two years.

At the University of California's Irvine campus, which introduced class-based admissions after Proposition 209, the number of students who are the first in their families to attend college has risen dramatically, and black and Hispanic enrollment has roughly doubled.

As digital devices like computers and robots get more capable thanks to Moore's Law (the proposition that the number of transistors on a semiconductor can be inexpensively doubled about every two years), they can do more of the work that people used to do.

Compare this with the nearly tautologous proposition that the number is either less than 9 or greater than 9.