Sentence examples for proposition to have from inspiring English sources

This makes it a much more practical proposition to have in a nursing home or hospital than a live pet.

But the circuit over Box Hill is a different proposition – to have a chance of getting over the long, steep climb nine times at race speed he has had to lose half a stone in weight, sacrificing a little of his famous sprint velocity, and he has trained specially over the climb behind a motorbike to simulate race conditions.

A second proposition, to have the signatures on proxy ballots written on an outer envelope that can be separated from the ballot, was preferred by a majority of those voting but it was defeated because the "Yes" vote failed to reach the two-thirds majority necessary for an amendment to be adopted.

But Office Web Apps and SkyDrive will need to drive home a Now proposition to have some impact on Google's aura of inevitability.

It is one thing for x and y to know the same proposition, and another, perhaps, for the proposition to have the same overall cognitive significance for x and y.

Thus, for a truly evident judgment to take place, a single evident proposition cannot be its cause, rather all three propositions of the syllogism must be taken together in order for the concluding proposition to have the evidence it needs to not only appear true, but to compel the mind's assent (LS I:199 208).

That's quite skewed as we had a series of VCs in our round – a different proposition to having a couple of angels – but in general it's a fair warning.

As we see clearly in Russell (1903), for instance, he takes propositions to have constituents.

One standard view of propositions takes propositions to be sets of possible worlds; another takes propositions to have something more closely resembling a linguistic logical structure (see structured propositions for a detailed exposition of this issue).

Those attracted to B-theories of time will take propositions to have their truth-values eternally, which makes inclusion of a time index superfluous.

They were chatting about Wittgenstein's idea that every proposition had to have a precise place in the axiomatic order of rational language, independently of the various contexts in which it may be employed.