Sentence examples for proposition which we from inspiring English sources

This Article is based on a simple proposition, which we believe but cannot prove: that our tax system will be more effective if taxpayers support the way their tax dollars are spent.

'That the government of the United States, through the action of the legislative department, can exclude aliens from its territory is a proposition which we do not think open to controversy.

There will be gamers that are happy with gaming on the tablet or smartphone of course, but consoles still have a unique proposition which we believe allows them to make a relatively strong move at the start of this next generation.

A key part of our product strategy will be developing our mobile proposition, which we will be investing in heavily.

There is no reason to suppose that we would be unable to justify every proposition we believe by appeal to some other different proposition which we justifiably believe.

In part his motivation derives from his acceptance of a principle which Russell had introduced — that 'every proposition which we can understand must be composed wholly of constituents with which we are acquainted' (Russell 91).

But this, in a changed form of statement, advances propositions which we have held to be unsound in the Guinn Case.

To be sure, as Cartesian skeptics would acknowledge, there are contrastive propositions which we can rule out, such as propositions that address our evidence, entailing false things about it.

The second task of critical philosophy is to examine these and other fundamental assumptions; it is "to take these propositions which we uncritically assume in science and daily life and to subject them to criticism" (ibid)..[14] In order to analyse a proposition we must seek to attain a clearer grasp of the concepts featured in the proposition.

Deriving "2 + 2 = 4" from our set-theoretic axioms does not increase our confidence in the truth of "2 + 2 = 4", but the fact that we can derive this antecedently known fact (and not derive other propositions which we know to be false) does increase our confidence in the truth of the axioms.

Thus, we can neutralize the potentially knowledge-robbing proposition that my senses have deceived me on some occasions by conjoining it with another proposition to which we assent, namely, that I can distinguish between the occasions when my senses are trustworthy and those when they are not.