Moreover, consistency for full belief derives from the concept of belief as holding propositions to be true and from the logic of propositions, without any such assumed tie to action, and although Ramsey thought that such a connection was necessary to clarify the idea of partial belief, it seems that a fully analogous characterization of consistency for partial belief should do without it.
Recently some philosophers have thought that a person can be justified in believing, or accepting, a proposition without having any evidence to support it, and so even if there is no nonexperiential source of evidence for that belief, or acceptance.
Equivalently, there cannot be a difference in the truth-value of a proposition without a difference in its subject matter.
Television, once a fairly monolithic proposition without a substantial independent wing, is now a place of nooks and crannies and corners.
Hence, Stanley says, "If the hermeneutic fictionalist is correct, then x can bear the propositional attitude of pretense toward a proposition, without it being in principle accessible to x that x bears the propositional attitude of pretense towards that proposition.
Local stations in California, including those owned by CBS and NBC, have covered the proposition without disclosing their corporate contributions.
The crew aboard the International Space Station is working on a problem with the system for collecting solid and liquid waste, a trickier proposition without gravity.
Belief, a mental attitude of acceptance or assent toward a proposition without the full intellectual knowledge required to guarantee its truth.
The concepts and propositions of Euclidean geometry may be derived from Pythagoras' proposition without the introduction of rigid bodies; but these concepts and propositions would not then have contents that could be tested.
This reflects the idea that if one admits the possibility of a proposition's being half-true, one can no longer hold of every proposition without restriction that either it or its negation is true.
